Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

[Michael Stevens]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Surely, then, rpm should have the ability to install and fetch
> > dependencies from the network automagically? 
> Yes it should.  It doesn't.  Which is why Helix's installer is so much
> easier to use.

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Or, more sensibly, debian.

apt-get install foo

already knows how to fetch foo from the network and install, grabbing
any required dependencies.

I even hear you can use it with rpms these days.

Michael