On Saturday 27 December 2003 00:41, SN wrote: > > > I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like > > > SUSE and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la > > > portage) > > and > > > > relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one > > > thing they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of > > > standard packages (a la > > > portage). Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect > > of > > > > an > > I don't think so, look at mandrake cooker and you will notice, that they > have at least as many apps in rpm form as gentoo ebuilds. > I have never counted them, but I thought they even have more rpms for apps > than gentoo, at least I have seen rpms there for apps that gentoo still > doesn't have. > So that doesn't count. > > I have used rpm distros for years, but portage was not the reason for me to > switch to gentoo. > Mandrake for example has an extraordinary rpm system "urpmi" with some > scripting skills you can even use it to download srpms and compile > everything from source, it is better that apt-get. But most people think > rpm can't do much more than install and deinstall packages. >
Sorry, this message went to the wrong list, but thanks for the info about Mandrake. My experience with Mandrake Cooker in the past (2 years back) was that nothing was really cooked even medium rare, i.e. there was a lot of subtly broken stuff. Maybe they've improved with age. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
