FC2 and RPM

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 dave.woolcock at spamcop.net wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:33:39 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
> >.. instead of downloading a random '.rpm' off the
> >web - and depending upon 'click-to-install' feature of
> >konsole/konquorer.
> 
> I thought that was exactly the point of a package manager!?

Oh you mean - install some RPM built for SUSE 8.0 on FC3?

rpm does lots of checks to prevent 'incompatible' rpms from being
installed - but if some 'incompatibility' isn't listed as part of the
rpm(spec file when the rpm is built) - rpm can't prevent the bad
package from being installed.

So, the safest thing is to use RPMs built for your distribution.

Satish