Chris Ricker wrote:
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At any rate, this on one level at least seems like a bad idea to me. One of
the nice things about managing Linux (versus other Unixen) is that on most
major Linux distros patch management and software management are the same
thing -- patches are just new versions of existing packages, and you
install, track, etc. the way you do any packages. That's better than the
usual "one set of tools to manage packages, another to manage bugfixes to
packages".... The patch.rpm's seem a bit of a step backwards, at least in
that respect.
Hear, hear! Anyone who complains about RPM dependency hell has
obviously never needed to deal with HP-UX Software Distributor patch
bundle hell. :-)
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Paul
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