Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 13:45, Fran�ois Pons a �crit :
> Le lun 10/03/2003 � 12:16, Michael Scherer a �crit :
> > Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 12:04, El Gringo ( aka Guillaume Rousse ) a �crit :
> > > Ainsi parlait Michael Scherer :
> > > > Very effective, everybody who read Linux Magazine France know that
> > > > apt-get is so cool ....
> > >
> > > http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html for instance ?
>
> Guillaume, it should be nice to add extra functionnalities added since
> one year ? Does someone is interrested ?
>
> For example,
> * ssh:// and rsync:// supported protocol.
> * distributed installation support.
> * cache management improved.
> * urpmf logical expression management.
> * mirrors management support compatible with urpmi.setup.
> * allow some global options to be defined in urpmi.cfg file.
> * a lot of newer options since for urpmq/urpmi/urpmf.
Sure, unfortunatly i don't have much time available currently. And i'd rather
write something about sane package management that would benefit many more
people first.
> > Yes, exactly what I was thinking :-)
> > Very good intro, that is what make me discover urpmi.
>
> Guillaume is really smart to explain things...
I'm not sure my students from 8:30 this morning would agree :-)
> > > > Another thing to do is that we should stop to say that rpm can be
> > > > find on rpmfind.net. Almost each time people go on rpmfind, they
> > > > download a rpm for another distro, and, when it don't work, they say
> > > > that rpm is bad.
> > >
> > > I wholeheartly agree. Users see rpms as just another archive format,
> > > and completly miss the integration work behind.
> >
> > What about using a different extension ?
> > Something as mrpm ?
I'd rather try to educate people. Yes, i'm somewhat idealist :-)
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