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.
I don't consider myself a cheerleader for anybody. I have one machine running Fedora FC2, updated by Synaptic, and another running SuSE 9.1 updated by Red Carpet. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Red Carpet seems a bit more responsive as (if I understand correctly) the repositories are scanned by a daemon in the background. Red Carpet also has a slightly kinder and gentler GUI (IMHO). On the other hand (also IMHO), Synaptic has a wider range of repositories available (for Fedora). Neither is enough that I would switch to one or the other exclusively. Synaptic (OK, APT) allows one to specify packages which must be installed rather than updated; I've come to trust this enough to use Synaptic to install kernel upgrades and to withdraw obsolete kernel packages. To be honest though, I don't recall a kernel upgrade being available through the channels I scan via Red Carpet since I started using it. The comment, elsewhere in this thread, that kernel upgrades are best done manually suggests that perhaps Synaptic is a bit superior in this area. Neither of them runs any kind of post-processor like SuSEconfig, but on the whole I consider that to be an advantage, as, while running SuSEconfig after updating configuration options is a great idea, I'm not entirely certain it makes sense after applying service. After bulk-applying service to either box, I normally reboot. Perhaps not entirely standard, but they're my boxes and I can do what I want with them. The bottom line is that I will continue to use Synaptic to update Fedora, and Red Carpet to update SuSE because each has what I perceive as advantages in the chosen environment. YMMV. Cheers, Gordon Keehn