On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 13:33, kim marshall wrote:
> I have a lot of good things to say about MDK 9.0 but as usual the
> problems take precedence for now.
>
>
> I just have to vent on these new rpmdrake tools. I must say I am not
> very impressed. I liked the mdk 8.x versions better and even with these
> I was often using kpackage as it was more flexible and more information
> rich. If mandrake continues to dumb down these tools I will continue to
> use kpackager or be forced to use the command line rpm utilities.
>
>
> Just my two cents.
Well here's my opinion on the matter since everyone's been so vocal
about this ;)
Use the right tool for the right job. I used to only use urpm* for all
updating with cooker (mostly because of it's speed and ease of
dependency resolution). Only occasionally would I use rpmdrake (v1) to
search through descriptions for something. I now use rpmdrake (v2) for
most of my updating. It's fast (like urpm*) and does the exact job I
want it to.
It doesn't sound like the previous rpmdrake (v1) was very maintainable,
and IMHO, Mandrake made a good decision to start on the right foundation
by making a tool that's fast and maintainable. Features can be added on
top of that. I hope that searching through descriptions will be added
some time, but I'm happy with the new one so far.
My own 0.02$ (I think we'll reach a $1 at this rate :>)
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/curtis ><>
Mandrake Linux 9.0 (cooker)
Kernel Version 2.4.18-22w4l
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