[GRASS-user] Re: grass-user Digest, Vol 25, Issue 67

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hamish wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
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>> oops. I meant "dependency management", not a Grass critique, a more 
>> general issue for Linux users ...
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> I take it you've never tried Debian then ;)
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> really the packaging is only as good as the spec/control file info, the same applies to the cygwin packages etc. Debian is so "good" at this not because the technology is behind the package management there is so good*, it is because the packaging rules are rather explicit, strict, and enforced.
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> [*] it may be, but that's besides the point
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> I do not know if the SuSE packages are build using the spec from the GRASS source code, but you could check the rpm/ source code dir and submit any fixes you have.
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> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/rpm
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> Hamish
>   
I think you may be flattering my expertise if you think I'm competent 
for source code fixes! :-)

I should however say, wrt YaST on OpenSuSE, that it's very ignorant of 
Grass and only returns a very ancient version (5.0.3-120).

Rc