[ale] Package Management System

[Geoffrey]

James CE Johnson wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 
>> Ditto. I believe anyone who believes that another package manager is 
>> "better" than Yast2, has not used Yast2.
>>
> 
> I've never used Yast2 but from Geoffrey's description below it sounds 
> like Mandrake's urpmi works about the same 'urpmi some-package' will go 
> find 'some-package' and all of their dependencies and get 'em installed. 
> The only real pain in the butt is finding good, stable and up-to-date 
> RPM repositories to feed to urpmi.addmedia.

I'm still a big fan of Mandrake, but with SuSE 8.2, you don't have a 
problem finding the sources, YAST2 offers the sites for you.  There's no 
reason to look anywhere else.  If I want something that SuSE doesn't 
offer, I get the source and compile it.  Generally, these things are 
relatively esoteric in nature (motion detection software for my camera 
and the festival speech synthesis stuff...)

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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