[LUNI] Microsoft loses 10,000 (so far) in Extremadura, Spain

[Dave Basener]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 17:14, Andrew Morrison wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:17, Larry Garfield wrote:
> > 1) User can add, remove, and upgrade software cleanly;
> > That includes adding and removing modules from larger programs, as well 
> > as the system itself.
> 
> Using red-carpet from Ximian accomplishes the adding/removing/upgrading
> of programs.   Upgrading the system (ie kernel) from a "user" point of
> view should only be done by upgrading to stable releases of
> distributions, IMO.

My experience with Red Carpet has, perhaps, been a bit different than
yours.  It is a nice idea and I used it for a while, until I realized
that using it effectively locked me into their set of releases.  

Ximian, undoubtedly for some technical reason that I haven't fathomed,
nor do I care about, renames the RPMs so that your machine RPM data base
now records that such-and-such a file is associated with
PackageName.3.12.ximian-1.3  or some such notation.  If I now get a
version of PackageName.3.13 from somewhere else, rpm chokes.

Now you could say "just stick with the Red Carpet releases", but
sometimes that isn't feasible if I need say SSL ASAP.

So I just gave up on them.

This was about a year ago, so perhaps things are different now.

Dave Basener

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