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by texthompson 2315 days ago
One of the funniest stories I've ever heard was about how a junior developer asked a more senior developer a creatively terrifying question:

How do I install half of an RPM?

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> half of an RPM

Well, I'm stumped... I wonder if he just needed one tool out of suite?

Maybe trying to workaround a dependency issue. Not sure what's in rpms, but in deb the manifest may require libsomething version exactly 1.1, will fail if something else requires libsomething >= 1.2.
1 revolution per 30 seconds maybe?
That would be 2 RPMs. Still easy to install!
From what I can tell, with cpio :-D