[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Greg Black]

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Robert Kearey wrote:

| Greg Black wrote:
| 
| > This is a perfect example of the glaring faults that infest most
| > of the package management systems out there.  If you have to use
| > a different name to uninstall the thing from the name you used
| > to install it, then the tool you're condemned to use is just
| > broken.  (This afflicts the FreeBSD packages as well, it's not
| > just a Linux thing.)
| 
| Nonsense.

Thanks for the rational start to this.

| The package name is not the filename

I did not say that it was.  Read the words I wrote that you
included in the quoted matter above.

My complaint is about having to use one name to install
something and a different name to uninstall it.  Whether or not
you agree with me, I am expressing a legitimate gripe with many
package management systems.

| - that way of thinking
| leads is the reason people assume .doc files are Word documents. Feh to
| that, and so on.

Why, thank you for playing.  I think I won't bother any more
with this.

Greg

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