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[Mike Still]

oh yeah forgot about apt-get for redhat.  I have that on some boxes. 
I'd use that over red-carpet given the choice.

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:08, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> RedCarpet is a great idea, it just doesn't seem to be "enough." It would be 
> cool if they provided the flash and java plugins and ability to play DVD and 
> MP3 (like the RedHat 8.0 apt-get system) as well as security updates in a 
> very timely fashion (like 3 days after a new release). It is ultra easy to 
> use, and could serve as a backup and enhancement of up2date.
> 
> Unfortunately, it currently stops short on benefits.
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:02, Jim wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:22 pm, Mike Still wrote:
> > > Well.. I've used the ximian red-carpet program to just upgrade the
> > > redhat packages before.  It has its own mirrors and you don't have to
> > > install the entire ximian desktop to use red-carpet.
> >
> > I'll admit I haven't used Red Carpet in recent months, but the last time I
> > tried it, it didn't handle dependencies well at all. If it ran into any
> > complications in that area, it would just give up. And in some cases, it
> > wanted to remove an unreasonable number of files before it would install
> > the requested files. Once it insisted it had to remove my entire KDE
> > installation! I passed on that one.
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Mike Still <MikeS at McBurney.com>

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