Re: [Mingw-users] Proposal for an official GCC+libs installer

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On 3/22/07, Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...> wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
> > Perhaps a port of RPM (the redhat package manager) would be the right
> > place to start?
>
> Definitely NOT!

I was waiting for your opinion on this, becuase it is actually what I
was investigating lately...

>
> > I think I saw mention of this in the past; I'm not sure
> > if it turns out to be a good/bad idea or not. If it worked, it would
> > give you a good foundation for managing dependencies,
>
> Have you ever used RPM?  Have you not heard of `RPM dependency hell'?

These days there are a bunch of depsolvers out there which allows not
one, but many RPM based distros to survive in that hell.

Please also consider we are talking about projects orders of magnitude
more complex than mingw/msys, that is, thousands of packages compared
to a (few?) dozen

Anyway, I noted in your other reply that the (current?) installer has
dependency tracking capabilities. If that is true, I'm not going to
waste more time on that, since that was exactly why I though about
using rpm into msys for installation purposes.

BTW. Which OS are you using?