On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 10:24, James Ogley wrote:
I suppose that I ought to have changed the subject, but then James may not have read it!
I'll do the honours then ;)
James, this is a genuine question. I do not want to start an Apt/Red-carpet war, but I (and others, probably), would be interested in your reasons for being so against (D)Red-Carpet.
Well, I'll just mention I don't use Synaptic, apt from the command line is much quicker.
Okay, my beef with RC is a once-burnt situation. I openly admit this is irrational, and RC has changed A LOT since this happened. This is going back maybe four years now, but I installed RC, and set it up to keep my system up to date, and it basically hosed it. Off the top of my head I forget what it did, but I ended up having to reinstall.
Just remember that this is years ago and might very well have been the packaging as well as red-carpet itself. I've hosed my debian installation using apt more than once. It's never been apt's fault but rather the packages I installed. But in your case it might as well have been red-carpet, I'm sure it had lot's of bugs back then :) I've used apt for like 8 years now and like it alot. But for the average user I'd recommend red-carpet. In fact, on my SuSE box I only have red-carpet. Works great. Regards, Erik