On Saturday 28 August 2004 01:14, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Does Red Carpet handle the actions that must follow installation of the packages themselves?
There are no such actions. If you mean "does it run SuSEconfig", then no.
Can Red Carpet install kernels?
Assuming they are rpms, of course it can. But kernels are best installed manually
Is using Red Carpet a one-way street, or can one readily switch back to the system's native package management system (YaST)?
Begging your pardon, but "the system's native package management system" is RPM. Anything else, and I mean anything, is just a GUI frontend that makes your life more or less miserable. There is no part of yast, apt or red carpet that cannot be done manually from the command line using plain old rpm. All those tools do is help you find the packages, and help you solve dependencies. That is all. They can't help you if the rpms themselves are broken, except to help you unroll changes. And yes, they are all interchangeable.