Linux and application installing

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 15:08:04 UTC 2010


On 17 September 2010 15:28, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Not if it's provided in the RPM header in a way where it can be easily
> stuffed into the metadata or a similar place.

Bear in mind: 'n' applications per package, where 'n' can be a large
number. This means you have to come up with an interesting way to
encode binary data in a application prefixed rpm-provide. Icky.

Richard.


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