On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:33:33PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > > This because it would complete the page, because many people do use it.
> > 
> > Go ahead and add some info on apt, if you like. But I'd rather like to see 
> > people moving from apt to YaST (if they need a cmdline interface: y2pmsh)  
> > and YUM.
> 
> I would put info on it, but I do not have enough knowledge. As for 
> cmdline interface, I just do `yast -i package` and that works great. 
> What would be nice would be removal. `yast -e package` for removal of 
> `package`

How about "y2pmsh remove yourpackage"? ;) [Note: rpm -e package would be 
much faster...]

<sales pitch>
$ y2pmsh

[...]

[0] y2pm > help
     allconflicts  display all conflicting packages
           commit  commit changes. actually performs installation
          depends  search for depending packages
         depstats  dependency statistics
         deselect  deselect packages marked for installation/removal
               df  display disk space forecast
             help  this screen
             init  initialize packagemanager (happens automatically if needed)
          install  select packages for installation
              isc  install, solve and commit
            newer  show packages with newer candiate available
         products  show installed products
           remove  select package for removal
           search  search for packages
       selinstall  mark selection for installation, need to call solvesel
        selremove  mark selection for removal, need to call solvesel
          selshow  show selection info
         selsolve  solve selection dependencies and apply state to packages
         selstate  show state of selection
              set  set or show variable
             show  show package info
            solve  solve dependencies
           source  manage installation sources
      sourceorder  set installation order for sources
            state  show state of package(s)
          summary  display summary about what would be done on commit
            unset  unset variable
          upgrade  compute upgrade
whatconflictswith  search for conflicting packages
    whatdependson  search for depending packages
     whatprovides  search for package provides
     whatrequires  search for package requirement
              why  print solve results for arguments
[0] y2pm > quit

$
</sales pitch>


> At this moment apt is still widely used and therefore should have its 
> place on that page. If it is abandoned in the future, we can always 
> remove it again.

apt-rpm is no longer maintained, as the head developer moved along to do 
smartpm...


Regards
        Christoph

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