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Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Feb 19 14:50:31 EST 2004


yep, forgot about red-carpet.......

Brad Bartram wrote:

>This may or may not be relevent but if you're using just a very limited subset 
>of packages or if you have a very good control of your environment, red 
>carpet by ximian will automatically install dependencies.
>
>On Thursday 19 February 2004 01:45 pm, Robert Meyer wrote:
>  
>
>>I was poking around last night on a RedHat box.  There appears to be
>>nothing to match the Mandrake 'urpmi' application.  'urpmi' does all of the
>>cool stuff that apt-get is supposed to do.  It will pull all of the
>>dependancies when it gets a package.  This is pretty cool and neatly
>>defeats a lot of the criticisms about package management.  After wonking
>>around with apt-get on Sunday, I get a much better appreciation for urpmi.
>>
>>In Mandrakeland, the graphical package manager uses 'urpmi' when you
>>install stuff so it gains the benefit of the auto dependancy stuff.
>>
>>Hey, Peter... It isn't in RedHat :-P
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Bob
>>
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