On Monday 12 August 2002 09:04 pm, Christoffer Olsen wrote: > Have you looked better at it? > It has new features, like the "update availability" sorting, new stuff > for grpmi which makes things look nicer. And, i feel dependencies are > not a problem anymore, as most is checked upon selection, as it wasnt > before. You can set the mirrors, but not in rpmdrake. Removing and > editing is done outside. I think that is a step forward for ease of use.
> My rpm package management _is_ easier, now than before. I have to disagree with you. When I did a clean install of cooker the other day I couldn't get into runlevel 5 because of a missing file, lang.sh, which is supposed to be in the initscripts rpm. I figured it was something that would be fixed pretty quickly, so I updated the sources and wanted to do a search by file for lang.sh, which could be done with the old rpmdrake, and found that it couldn't be done anymore, so i looked around on google and found the rpm lang.sh was supposed to be in and installed the updated initscripts and my problems were fixed, but the process was definately more complex with the new rpmdrake than the old. As for the look of the update availablity thing, that was there before, and easier to get to imho. My only real complaint with the new rpmdrake is that it was introduced in the beta stage of mdk 9 development instead of way earlier on when it could have been tweaked and fixed and argued about with a lot less pressure from the clock. -Elliott
