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Re: size of db_* files in lib/rpm

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Mon 28 Jan 2008 - 21:51:04 CET
Message-ID: <20080128205103.GA42252@engelschall.com>
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
>> You can also remove the "rpmbuild" executable as all of its
>> functionality is also in "rpm". Also, you can remove a dozen installed
>> scripts in case you don't need them...
>
> Actually rpmbuild CLI _COULD_ be added to rpm afain, but has not been done
> afair.

Ops? Then I really missed something important myself, too. I remove
"rpmbuild" myself all the time and pretty fine use just "rpm" --
including for all build commands like "rpm -bb", "rpm -bs", etc. What
functionality would be not in "rpm" and which is in "rpmbuild"?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Tue Jan 29 07:34:05 2008
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