On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:53:41PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Robert Schiele wrote:
BTW: You should not underestimate the number of people using the rpm command line because it just saves you a lot of time of your life in many situations.
Yup.
Especially as "add a new installation source" means (openSUSE 10.2) - Calling yast - Enter password - Call source manager - about 3-10 minutes waiting for inst-source updates - Getting URL (konqueror, firefox) - Entering URL in inst-source (C&P) - Retyping URL, as we forget directory or were a directory to deep - Wait again, lots of clicks - Go to installation - about 3-10 minutes waiting again - search the tool - select the tool - install the tool - 3-5 minutes waiting for SuSE config
Interesting workflow! For me, it looks much easier: cd /etc/yum.repos.d w3m download.opensuse.org/repositories # download desired foo.repo file yum install foo I'm hardly using the commandline rpm anymore. Of course occasionally, but yum is fast enough...
Compared to - wget URL:xxx.rpm - su -c "rpm -i xxx.rpm" - Enter password
I only do the above for tools I want to be kept updated all the time.
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