On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
No offense, but can I get an answer from someone who is _not_ a cheerleader for Red Carpet, who can refer to its alternatives without sneering and who will not speak to me as if the first time I saw computer was the day before yesterday?
Thank you.
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:22, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 01:14, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Does Red Carpet handle the actions that must follow installation of the packages themselves?
There are no such actions. If you mean "does it run SuSEconfig", then no.
That's a contradiction. Running SuSEconfig _is_ such an action.
Can Red Carpet install kernels?
Assuming they are rpms, of course it can. But kernels are best installed manually
In your opinion.
Frankly, to me this is utter nonsense. Computers are about automation. If a formulaic operation such as installing new software, kernel or otherwise, is not fully automated by one tool and it is by another, then the latter is the superior tool.
Is using Red Carpet a one-way street, or can one readily switch back to the system's native package management system (YaST)?
Begging your pardon, but "the system's native package management system" is RPM. Anything else, and I mean anything, is just a GUI frontend that makes your life more or less miserable. There is no part of yast, apt or red carpet that cannot be done manually from the command line using plain old rpm. All those tools do is help you find the packages, and help you solve dependencies. That is all. They can't help you if the rpms themselves are broken, except to help you unroll changes.
And yes, they are all interchangeable.
(I love ironies.) Some weeks back Anders and I got into an exchange over Red-Carpet, he the pro, me the anti. I'm not a big fan of Red-Carpet, and I doubt I'll use it again until Novell puts it to use in their server level software. Having said that, what Andres has written here can be taken without the proverbial grain of salt. You can IMO take this at face value. Mike