-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andi Payn wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 06:48, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > >>Main difference (IMHO, from what I've seen): >> >> * urpmi is a cash generator. You need to pay (or tollerate being >> nagged every 60 days) to use it; > > > I think you mean up2date is a cash generator; urpmi is more a cash drainer for > Mandrake: They pay people to code urpmi and keep the repositories up to date, > but since not a single Mandrake user knows how cool urpmi is it generates $0 > in new sales. >
It might not generate $0 via new sales, but it *might* generate $0 via users who learned to use urpmi for MandrakeClub packages, and would like to continue having access to MandrakeClub packages. > Of course if everyone knew how cool urpmi was, that'd be a different story. I > recently managed to get someone off of Debian after two years of listening to > him bitch about how "Woe is me, Debian is so out of date, but I can't live > without apt-get, and I can't believe anything like that could work for rpm." > There is a bug filed for drakgw, in that it doesn't make it easy enough for a user to setup the MandrakeClub urpmi source (it can, it just doesn't make it impossible for the user to not set it up right). Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Hq+6rJK6UGDSBKcRAiMJAJ9j/AD710f++Hry7YpvrOa67mFAJwCgxAct VNPpPLKa++zm3EEL2E8LRLI= =LYAy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
