"Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, that's exactly my point. If you look at the way Mandrake is going > with things like urpmi and the recent adoption of the Debian menu system, it > looks like the Mandrake developers like the ideas of Debian and are working > to mimick them.
I do *not* deny we're copying things from debian (and not only from debian, taking the good things always has been the job of making a distribution :) *but* i'd like to comment on this "urpmi is mimicking apt", which is somewhat true, but not completly: when urpmi started (in april 1999), apt was not well-known nor configured by default on debian. urpmi was aimed at stable cdrom release. It took some time to Francois to move on to the new urpmi we now have, because the choices I made were somewhat wrong for what people expect from urpmi (the depslist being very inflexible/costly, and the hdlist's are big causing costly urpmi database updates) History also says that: - URPMI meant "User RPM Install" (for a long time, urpmi was setuid and allowed a normal user to install packages _from a non-modifiable location_) - it was meant to be used by autoirpm. Alas autoirpm is kind of dead, not being a valid solution in nowadays world with big drives and many security concerns.
