onsdag 14 april 2004 04:23 skrev Sergei Klink:
Minor point - if you're doing it with apt, you're probably not doing it manually :P - using rpm directly would be something I'd consider as "manual".
That is exactly what I was referring to ... in majority of situations, I end up with having to use rpm manually. Only after I've made sure dependancies are good enough, can I use apt ... and then, it's only to install one package, or most two. If I want to select packages, I want to use some GUI tool, like YaST, where synaptic would be the tool to use with apt. Alas, now that I got a x86_64 system, I no longer have synaptic :-) ... anyways, I fire up synaptic select the packages and install ... most of the time, the installation breaks, and I end up going into /var/cache/apt/archives and doing a 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' manually :-) Believe me, YaST is vastly superior to apt, the only thing with YaST is that it's not as easy to create 3rd party repositories (I'm guessing this or the licence is what's kept parties from creating them). Something, I hope will change now that YaST will be GPL'd. So, I'll see repositories like gwdg.de for YaST. Perhaps even packman, and I'll drop apt faster than I can say the word. :-)