Summary of comments on Slashdot article

[Steven Suson]

I would have to agree with the dependency issues. I think it's great 
that Bugzilla is planning on providing RPM's, but I do request that the 
SRPM's of all such RPM's be available also.

Thanks in advance,
Steven Suson

Christopher Hicks wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Kevin Benton wrote:
>
>> I would agree that on my home Fedora Core 1 system, it was very 
>> difficult to install because of the very large number of CPAN 
>> libraries that were required and many didn't install properly 'out of 
>> the box.' Does that mean that Bugzilla itself was difficult to 
>> install?  No, but to get to the point where installation could be 
>> done was very difficult.
>
>
> This sort of thing would really be best handled by making a set of 
> RPM's that make Bugzilla installation automatic.  I'm working on such 
> RPM's for Fedora currently actually.  :)  I'd like to get some changes 
> pushed upstream to the Fedora httpd rpm, but I haven't even embarked 
> on that journey yet.  I expect to release something after Christmas.
>