On Friday 27 August 2004 01:06, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Short of that, why won't you enumerate the advantages you perceive with red carpet?
red carpet or apt will update or install packages from multiple sources, repositories, taking care of any dependency problems you may have. In red carpet, this can even be a local directory. They have command line tools that yast is nowhere near, yast has been completely screwed for remote use ever since they dropped the ncurses version. 7.3 was the last yast with a decent package manager, IIRC. You can easily set up local repositories, so you can install a package from the net on a test machine, and then transfer it to your local repository where your production machines install from, once you've verified that the package works (corollary: no sysadmin worth his salary will install a package update on a production machine without first testing if it works) ximian is a part of Novell, just like SuSE, so I'm hoping red carpet will become an official part of the toolchain in the next version, and do away with the package manager in yast2 which was broken from the start and then only marginally improved in later versions. Technologically, red carpet is light years ahead