"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> > It should not be *really* hard for a DrakX expert, > > Which I certainly am not. I am not even expert enough to understand > a lot of the obfuscated (no offence intended, I am sure it's efficient > even if obfuscated -- why does perl5 have to be so obfuscated anway?) > code in drakx. i won't troll on this :) oh well, just a little: show some haskell code to a functional programming agnostic and see what you get. That's why I don't call it obfuscation but "minimal knowledge" (people working on DrakX have no pb understanding the code). We could go the anaconda way of dumb C-like code, but I hate this! [...] > > but anyway, what you want is mainly "rpm --initdb /the_dir ; rpm --root > > /the_dir -Uvh ...", > > Yes, if I knew what all RPMs I needed/wanted to install (without a > whole lotta iterative attempts). :-) I also want a "more or less" > standard install to see if the Galeon/Mozilla hangs go away. If I > just plop a bunch of RPMs into a directory, it's hardly a "Mandrake > installation". yes it is! fcrozat won't neglect your bug report if you're running cooker with fulfilled dependencies. You can try using urpmi --root /the_dir ...
