I understand, and I'm not trying to put down RPMDrake. I think it's a
great tool. Somehow kpackage just seems to do things in a way that I
prefer. It's mostly a matter of taste in this case, and not a request
that RPMDrake be made to do everything kpackage does and then some.
RPMDrake is Mandrake-centric, while kpackage is meant as a general
purpose package manager. But since I use it almost exclusively for my
package management, the loss of it is growing beyond the nuisance stage
(as it has been out of whack for over a week).
Though it has been enlightening to get back to command line rpm
utilities. They're certainly faster when you just need to do an 'rpm
-Fvh' and maybe a couple of 'rpm -Uvh' entries for some new
requirements. (Very thankful to have a 12GB drive to dedicate to
mirroring Mdk8, Cooker, 2 contribs, unsupported, and (soon)
MandrakeFreq.)
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
> > Kpackage has the option to display all the packages available in a
> > single view as opposed to having to choose only the installed vs the
> > installable. Kpackage also lets me view packages that are updates to
> > what is already installed by selecting the appropriate tab.
>
> rpmdrake does the same. You can select updates only; and I'm not sure what
> do mean you under "available" ... that are packages that are not yet
> installed, i.e. "Installable" :-)
>
> At a
> > glance, I can see what is new ("N"), updated ("U"), or installed (funky
> > RPM icon). Knowing what to update in RPMDrake requires watching for
> > update notices in places like MandrakeForum or Linux Today, or even
> > keeping an eye on my FTP mirroring logs (which is the only way to catch
> > an updated unsupported package).
>
> You have sometimes to update repository. I do not want it to do it
> automatically in any case (not over modem).
>
> > Kpackage also appears to better handle "foreign" packaging types such as
> > Debian, Slackware, BSD, and kiss (whatever that is).
> >
>
> rpmdrake is designed to work as Mandrake tool not Yet Another Replacement
> For Everything. I am not sure mixing urpmi and dpkg makes much senese
> (strictly IMHO).
>
> -andrej
