binary rpm repos?
Bradley Giesbrecht
brad at pixilla.com
Sun Mar 8 00:31:46 PST 2009
On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> It turns out RPM works fine on Mac:
>
> http://rpm4darwin.sourceforge.net/
>
> -- why not have reference binaries for all ports in RPM format, to
> avoid endless recompiling if you don't have to? Watching gobs of
> compiler output fly by doesn't make one a Unix expert, in the immortal
> words of the funroll-loops.info of the "Gentoo is Rice" fame. Yeah,
> yeah, it depends on what you have -- but look, Red Hat does it!
Hey Alexy, forgot to thank you for the funroll link. That brought a
smile to my face :) Well actually I was laughing my ass off.
Totally reminds me of all the Windows users who hate Macs cause you
can't get under the hood and customize them to work the way you want.
Always good for a laugh.
Thanks for sharing.
Brad
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