Alkis Evlogimenos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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).

there was a moment where we had 2 solutions, both time costly:
- dump urpmi, and switch to apt-get
- enhance urpmi

cons for switching to apt-get:
- apt-get for rpm still needed some work
- apt-get for rpm doesn't like file requires (eg: "Requires: /usr/bin/perl")
- apt-get doesn't handle choices (but rpmdrake doesn't either)
- we don't know apt-get 
  (which is much bigger than urpmi, currently 11Kloc vs 4Kloc)
- francois doesn't like C++ anymore :)
  (did I say I don't either ? oops, sorry! [1])
- urpmi can be more easily tuned for the Mandrake distribution


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