On Sunday 24 February 2002 03:24 am, Pixel wrote: > "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.
So then why don't you just throw urpmi out of the window and help connectiva with apt-rpm? I found it to work perfectly with Mandrake (if I generate the package lists myself). Alkis
