On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Both package mgmt systems have their goods and bads, my experience confirms it. For
>sure it looks like RPM has been
> adopted as a standard. So why not improve RPM rather than fighting about which one
>is better, which one screws up
> the most, which one.....#$%^#&!$!%^&@
>
>
> I think what's lacking the most with RPM is a console based system (kinda like
>dselect) that uses apt like
> principles - i.e.: you select a package to install or upgrade from an rpm repository
>and all dependencies get
> satisfied by downloading the required packages after confirmation from the user(Guys
>@ mdk, you already have the
> algos ready from your 7.1 DrakX install script which by the way is really slick!).
>Although I agree totally that
> mdk is aimed at the desktop and therefore GUI based apps, I truly beleive that it
>would be beneficial for mdk to
> come up with such a tool. Think about upgrading a remote system from a telnet or
>ssh session for example.
>
> By the way, rpmdrake has never worked for me: it always hangs on generating
>dependencies list - gendepslist2 (I
> posted a help msg here about it but never got an answer:((()
>
> Anyways, I just thought I'd put my $0.02 in, just to mention some lacks I see and
>experience in RPM... Some of you
> may think it's pointless, but I spoke anyways :)
>
> Cheers everyone!
>
> Peace,
>
> Patrick.
Agreed...
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Bryan Paxton
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