Thanks Carl,
What was I thinking?..
The distro-select 'war' seems in reality an ongoing search for the most reliable package management system. In testing the alternatives, the simple rule is "give them a chance" - stick with them to maintain their integrity.
I will keep working with YaST, & learn how to get it to manage all interesting RPMs on its own. It has been updating quite a lot of stuff already, from a choice of Australian servers. It's the best updater I've tried so far.
Access to security patching is needed to stay 'level' with "Windows". I haven't seen Fedora yet, but Red Carpet sounds good for older RedHats perhaps, or other RPM-based systems. See YUM too:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum
But for SuSE, stick with YaST I'd say. After Gentoo emerge, I'll be looking at Debian apt-get.
Cheers
Rik
Carl Klitscher wrote:
The easy answer is don't use RedCarpet... but that sounds very trite. A better answer would be pick one or the other and then stick with it.
Long answer would be that RedCarpet and YaST both have different management styles and dependancy rules and while they are now owned by the same company and will (probably) eventually play nicely together I am not sure they are there yet. I haven't used RedCarpet but I have installed XD2 for a customer and struck a similar problem with YaST getting slightly bitter about stuff installed outside of its control. It got mildly irritating about wanting to add other things to 'fix' problems until I found the permanent 'ignore this' flag. The Ximian stuff tends to require a lot of other ximian stuff to work properly though. Interestingly the ximian site ftp server only has the three packages mentioned but ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/ximian/redcarpet2/suse-90-i586/ has a few more including the python-gtk one it's complaining about. Maybe download that as well and try again? Once you get it going I'd be interested to know what you think about it.
Carl
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