[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

[Robert Kearey]

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Greg Black wrote:

> | Nonsense.

> Thanks for the rational start to this.

I'm sorry? It's fine for you to making sweeping and uninformed 
statements about entire classes of applications, but the rest of us must 
pretend we're in a high school debating class. Forgive my transgression, 
Mr Speaker.

> | 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.

Please don't try that on. The package name is not the filename.

> 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.

Let's see. Possibly we could do something like place all rpms in 
something like /var/spool/rpms/pending, run rpm --get-pending, then do 
something like rpm --show-pending, and *then* do rpm -Uvh 
actual-package-name.

Or we could just do rpm -Uvh foo-version.arch.rpm.


> | - 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.

Crivens. For someone who implicitly boasts of his intellectual vigour 
and enormous skills, you seem to lack grace. Here's a clue Greg - I was 
not attacking you in any manner. I've never claimed to be an mental 
giant - quite the opposite - and I would have welcomed your point of 
view. Leave the snideness for the BSD lists, or where-ever.

Oops, that's the three minute bell. I'll stop now.

> Greg

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