From: TJ@noneofyour.business
On 05/20/2012 12:04 AM, Adam wrote:
> unruh wrote:
>> On 2012-05-19, Adam wrote:
>
> [Mandriva and Mageia]
>
>>> I suppose I'll have to research both (maybe even install
>>> both dual-boot) and see which one is better for me (for my
>>> definition of "better").
>>
>> I am worried
>> about mandriva with their latest floudering. Mageia does not have the
>> software that Mandriva has (PLF, contrib), so I hope that either Mageia
>> and MandrvaFree unite, or that all of the software that is there for
>> Mandriva comes over.
>>
>> In fact, what is the equivalent of contrib under Mageia?
>>
>> And where is "restricted" and non-free (eg Acroread, Flash) for Mageia?
>
> Really elementary question: Are the two distros already different enough
> that packages from the Mandriva repository won't work with Mageia?
>
> Adam
Depends on the individual package, mostly on dependencies. If, for
example, a Mandriva package was put together dependent on libvital 2.3.0
(totally made up library), and Mageia is using libvital 3.0.7, with the
older library not easily available on the Mageia repositories, then it
won't work.
That particular problem showed up right from the start of Mageia 1 with
VirtualBox. Mandriva was using an older version of a dependency, so the
vendor's Mandriva rpm was very difficult to install in Mageia.
Fortunately, in that example the vendor's VirtualBox is available in a
universal install package that works just fine with Mageia. But it
illustrates the problem with using rpms built for a specific distro on
another distro. Some will work, some won't no matter what you do, some
will work if you're willing to jump through enough hoops to get there.
TJ
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