I've nearly derailed in the past, by such proliferation, but only when I tried to use both Ximian's tree and Apt-rpm's... I had to choose one or the other to get my main system updates, primarily because Ximian does indeed release their own package tree -- in my case, most of my Gnome binaries got replaced by .ximian-named packages. Apt-rpm and up2dat have played fine together, in my experience... since apt-rpm uses the same (well days older) trees; although they do have some other branches that are cooler, but those don't cause conflict with up2date since up2date doesn't know anything about a quake3 or multi-gnome-terminal binary RPM!!
Regards, Ben PS - I know what you're saying about the lack of warm fuzzies, though. I was just discussing the eventual migration of our linux workstations to debian, at work... On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:53:55 -0800 Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ben Barrett wrote: | | > I know I might [now] get slammed for not using "yum" [yet], and | > maybe I'll be promoting it soon, but I'm still enjoying apt-get | > (apt-rpm) on redhat... there's a nice apt GUI tool call synaptic, | > which I'm sure some debian users know. It's real nice = ) | | I'm not getting warm fuzzies about the proliferation of package | managers that TDFKAR (The Distribution Formerly Known As RedHat) is | using. Package management and version synchronization is hard enough | without introducing three different package managers all with slightly | different semantics and slightly different sets of packages available. | | I predict a train wreck. | | -- | Bob Miller K<bob> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
