On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>I don't have the bandwidth
> currently to make an 'apt get dist upgrade' a feasible option (something
> like a 25 hour download at 1.6-2.2K/s). But I really wish someone would
> invent some way to get the features of the *.deb packages and apt
> package manager using rpm's. Namely the ability to intelligently
> determine what dependencies are needed and retrieve and install them
> also (I've heard rumors that urpmi or grpmi can do this ?)
>
Confession: I'm no longer using Mandrake. The bug reports
just were too much for me. However, I'm still following the
progress of Mandrake and hope my next installation will BE
Mandrake 7.5 or 8.
Now, as to your requests for automagic dependency checking
and installation: I'm told that RPM Drake does a MARVELOUS
job of taking care of that for you.... have you tried it?
John
