Brook Humphrey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:27:08 -0700:
> AS for mc every sysadmin I show it to uses it. It is way more useful in > the real world than emacs. Especially for system recovery. It is kind of > like an all in one tool for when things go bad. I even use it allot > under normal conditions to install rpm's. Especially when the system is > hosed and there is not other way to install them. I agree! I even fire up mc in konsole under KDE fairly frequently. It sure beats Konqueror for speed on a dir with lots of files that Konqueror want to load the icons for! I even redid its menu, adding a couple custom urpmi and rpm entries. Now, when urpmi refuses to install the big lot of stuff selected with an --auto-select, I load mc and point it to the rpms cache, and try them one by one installing everything that WILL install, then track down the problems with the remaining ones and see whether I can safely force them or not. It's definitely easier than typing it all into the command line a package at a time, when there's a couple hundred to try. (Of course, a REAL sysadmin would create a script to try each one individually, but automatically. I haven't gotten that far yet. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
