I knew about yum, but I had never used it until my involvement with FC3
test. I liked it. Joe average doesn't want a textual install/update
tool. Put a synaptic type front end on yum and it too would be a
winner.
Ironically, yum on my machine is now broken <again> because the repos
aren't pointing anywhere meaningful.
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:48 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:49 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> That was my point: synaptic and apt use rpms. So if I've got a
> dependency issue with apt and synaptic, I'll be having a dependency
> issue with rpms as well. I'd much, much rather use synaptic to take
> care of those issues than doing it manually with rpms.
>
> I've had to install packages in the past that have needed 6 to twelve
> other packages. (mplayer, xine, kdebase-devel of a new version, etc.)
> When synaptic can do the install it is much, much easier than manually
> doing it with rpms.
>
> I wasn't aware that synaptic was a single arch package. I don't think
> users care if synaptic isn't written in python. They just want a system
> to easily install packages with. I'd say it works pretty darn good
> 80-95% of the time.
I understand it is not graphical (yet) but you do know that yum exists,
right?
yum install nameofpackage
it will download and install all the dependencies you need, too.
-sv
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Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc