Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I quote a reply from Pixel here, from February 24 2002 (Yes, it was discussed > before :-) ) > > <quote> > there was a moment where we had 2 solutions, both time costly: > - dump urpmi, and switch to apt-get > - enhance urpmi > > cons for switching to apt-get: > - apt-get for rpm still needed some work
It should not be the case anymore, at the epoch apt-get was coredumping often. > - apt-get for rpm doesn't like file requires (eg: "Requires: /usr/bin/perl") I don't know if this is still the case ? > - apt-get doesn't handle choices (but rpmdrake doesn't either) No, rpmdrake and urpmi now handles choices, and relatively correctly to propose (problably) the best package by default (locales dependent), but it can be enhanced of course. > - we don't know apt-get > (which is much bigger than urpmi, currently 11Kloc vs 4Kloc) Still the case ;-) > - francois doesn't like C++ anymore :) > (did I say I don't either ? oops, sorry! [1]) We both doesn't like to put core files anywhere... > - urpmi can be more easily tuned for the Mandrake distribution This is still the case, of course, but strangely urpmi has almost no tuning for Mandrake, and can work for other distro (it has been done for Solaris using rpm). You may now add the following features (I may forget a lot of them) : - https, rsync and ssh protocol supported. - parallel installation (still need works but it can do things now). - urpmi core used by installation (DrakX), urpmi (of course), rpmdrake (was not the case previously), so the code of all these tools is managed by Mandrake team. - NIH syndrom ;-) Fran�ois.
