[wplug] Package-based distros

[James O'Kane]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Robert Dale wrote:
> So, if you wanted to install some rpm package that required gtk+, but you
> installed that from source and therefor not registered in the rpm
> database, the package manager would then check the library paths for the
> required library.  It would say "lookie, I found libgtk+!  Installing...",
> instead of "missing dependencies: libgtk+" (how lame).

This wouldn't handle versioning in an easy way. If we require 2.0 of some
program, it's not always encoded in the file name. If you try to get it in
other means, you start having package specific checks which become
cumbersome.

-james