Re: [Sheflug] Re: sound cards for Red Hat Linux 6.2?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Fairtlough <m.fairtlough [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:

    Matt> I'd go back to SuSE but [...]  I'm told that their packages
    Matt> are not that compatible with standard RH rpms.  Which is
    Matt> what most people distribute, I suppose.  My ignorance is
    Matt> showing again.

No, the RPMs are compatible.  What is not compatible is the systems.

What that means is that the configuration section of the RPM will put
things in the wrong place according to the system's policies, or
configure a device driver to use /dev/mouse when all the installed
software is looking for /dev/psaux, or something like that.

The software itself will probably be OK (although you must not mix
libXYZ from Red Hat with libXYZ-dev from SuSE, that is death).  You'll
just have more configuration problems than usual.

Some of those can be pretty hairy, eg, if one distro conses
/etc/modules.conf up out of the /etc/modutils/* files, while the other
does a sed directly on the /etc/modules.conf, there's no hope of
keeping a consistent module configuration.  But these will be
relatively rare, and Debian, for one, screws me that way with an
ordinary Debian upgrade every month or so (shed no tears for me; I am
on the unstable branch, I asked for it---but it does occasionally
happen with a public release, even in commercial distros).

It's surely no worse than installing a .tar.gz ;-)

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