On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Levi Ramsey wrote:

> On Sun Mar 09 12:52 -0500, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > I think that is what urpmi is good at.  Set up a cooker source, "urpmi 
> > audacity" will fetch and install all rpms that are required.
> 
> We really need to shout urpmi's praises from the rooftops.  Hardly a
> week goes by without me running into someone on Slashdot or Kuro5hin (or
> other sites) who complains about manually doing RPM dependencies on
> Mandrake.  They're always oblivious to the power and joys of urpmi.

Mostly ex-Redhat users in my experience ...

> 
> Maybe putting a "Did you know?" blurb in the installer (something like
> "Did you know that urpmi simplifies installing new software; with only
> one command you can install anything from the rich library of
> MandrakeLinux packages.  There's even a graphical version, rpmdrake.",
> perhaps).
> 

Tips dialog for Mandrake  Galaxy?

Buchan

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