Sergei Klink
On April 12, 2004 10:50 pm, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Sergei Klink
writes: Erm... What do you mean?? Apt is just for managing lists of packages, rpm has a bit different purpose, doesn't it? (especially since I use both at the same time with SuSE?)
I meant YaST not rpm.
If you do an update from 9.0 to 9.1, YaST knows about package splits and renames and will do the right thing.
I see about renames, but.. splits? Could you make an example? Do you mean when a package "things" providing "thing1" and "thing2" gets split into 2 packages, and the packages that were made dependant on "things" are automatically made dependant on "things1" and "things2" in the database? Hm.
No, a package providing "onlyonething" is split into two packages and only one of them provides "onlyonething". The other package is often not needed but since you had it before in the system, you might want to have it again.
Btw. what is so great about apt that you love it?
Simple and a bit faster loading than YaST :), command-line ("apt-get install foo" kind of thing) control, easy to manage repositories.
yast can do command lines also but it's different ;-).
That's about enough, I think. I haven't done any upgrades yet(I've switched to SuSE from Debian - I had my reasons, _not_ "user-friendliness" or anything like that...), so we'll see about that :) Besides, I just like aptitude... a lot... just because :)
I see. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126