Re: [Fwd: AbiWord for Mandrake]

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 15:26:43 EDT

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    According to Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>:
    > > *RPMs for RedHat may NOT work with Mandrake*
    >
    > In General Mandrake should be 99% compatible with RedHat RPMs.
    >
    > Should be does not mean they actually are.
    >
    > The Abiword RPMs may not neccessarily be compatible (ill take hubs word
    > that they dont, i hope the fix suggested works).
    > (Package management sucks ass on linux)

    Let me state this more clearly:

    A distribution contains a given set of package where some depends on
    the others.
    A package depends on a given set of packages of specified version,
    even more if it depends on some GNOME package.

    So a package is designed for ONE distribution version, nothing else.
    If you don't run that distribution, you are SOL.
    Usually rebuilding the package MAY works.

    Hope that clarifies.

    Hub 

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