See I don't mind getting my hands dirty. It's just that I wasn't
expecting quicksand, (example: trying to update samba-server and
requiring to upgrade everything including the kitchen sink.) I was
expecting most tools to be more independent which I found false.
To upgrade rpm I was required to upgrade perl and vim? This is
something I expect from microsoft where you need to upgrade everything
when something new comes out, (slap me and correct me if I'm wrong.) I
mean requiring to upgrade vim I don't think is needed for perl, samba
nor rpm. Would this be a urpmi, rpm issue? (I hope)
I don't mind installing from source, but if a standard desktop user
wanted to upgrade an application and was hit with this problem I don't
think it would look very good for linux.
Jason
Shane&Lisa wrote:
>
> indeed. I've never got one of the 'easy' distros RH, Mandrake to work
> properly...
>
> Shane
>
> Curtis Sloan wrote:
>
> > Woohoo! Slackware! "Dare to slack!"
> >
> > lol
> >
> > I'm not starting a distro war, but I do love my Slack -- and I only started
> > using it after a very long stint with both RH and Mandrake. Bye, bye RPMS.
> > Source tarballs are my new best friend. (Side note: I read on Slashdot one
> > opinion that stated that the problem with RPMs was not the format, but the
> > tools. After all, DEBs are not special, but apt sure is. I agree with
> > that, and RPM tools are getting better every day. Check out alien, urpmi,
> > apt-rpm, etc.)
> >
> > I will say that Mandrake is your best bet for a desktop replacement,
> > out-of-the-box, all things considered. But if you like to get your hands
> > dirty, Slack is a tremendous environment for learning and tweaking both the
> > desktop and server. IMHO.
> >
> > Curtis.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Louie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:19 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Updating Mandrake 8.2
> >
> > Me thinks me might abandon mdk8.2 and downloads mdk9.0 and rh8.0 and
> > gives them a whirl. Or Slackware8.1
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > Jesse Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 15:02, Jason Louie wrote:
> > > > Do all these applications require to be updated? I was just running a
> > > > urpmi samba-server and I was required to update a whole slew of
> > > > application from perl to vim. I all this required?
> > > >
> > > > Jason
> > >
> > > If you are using Mandrake 9.0 sources under Mandrake 8.2, then yes you
> > > probably will have to update a whole wack of stuff.
> > >
> > > Jesse
> > >
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