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A developer's nightmare

  Date:Jan 17 2003

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he current situation is an absolute and utter nightmare. When we started three and a half years ago you could make an RPM and pretty much without exception any RPM based system could use it. Now not only are RPMs not compatible between distributions, they aren't even compatible between versions of distributions. Here's a list of the packages we have to make for a single program for it to work properly across linux distributions without making 100MB static builds:


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