Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot statistics

[Rafael L. <lab...@mp...>]

* Jo=E3o Cardoso <jca...@in...> [2002-02-08 00:48]:

> Like me, when I made an automatic upgrade in my linux box, just to find
> that (of course) the upgrade had upgraded just the distro packages, not=
 the
> manually installed rpm ones? And then searching for all them... it woul=
d be
> much easier if they were in /usr/local -- or if I had a separate rpm
> database just for them.

<AD>
This is an area where Debian excels.  In my systems, I have no locally
installed packages, every package I have comes from Debian mirrors and is
automatically upgraded (thanks to "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade").  I =
am
talking about Debian woody (next stable release), that contains currently
over 8000 packages.
</AD>

> I have yet another rpm question. With dyndrivers, we can make rpm=20
> with all available drivers, without having to worry if the user=20
> system has the necessary libs or not! Of course the user will not be=20
> able to use those drivers, but it will not hurt, and if the user=20
> latter install the extra packages the drivers will be there. Correct?

I do not know the details of dependency handling in the rpm packaging
system, but for Debian I am planning to make individual packages for each
specific driver needing exteranl libraries.  The dependencies will be set
like:
 =20
    plplot-tcl -> tcl8.3, tk8.3
    plplot-xwin -> xlib6g
    plplot-gd -> libgd2
    ...

If the user says "apt-get install plplot-gd", then libgd2 will be
automatically downloaded, installed, and configured.

--=20
Rafael