On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:06, Frans Pop wrote: >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:22, Bill Allombert wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> > <p>The &releasename; version of <prgn/aptitude/ is the >> > preferred program for package management from console. It has >> > proven to be better at dependency resolution than >> > <prgn/apt-get/. <prgn/aptitude/ supports most command line >> > operations of <prgn/apt-get/. If you are still using >> > <prgn/dselect/, you should also give <package/aptitude/ a try as >> > frontend for package management.</p> >> >> Look fine. Should we mention synaptic as well ? > >That is the only graphical frontend that really has proper > dependency handling, correct? I have kpackage on my system, but I > don't trust it enough to actually install packages with [1]. >Does synaptic also support marking packages "automatically > installed" like aptitude does? >Is it also reliable when X or Gnome are updated? > >I don't use synaptic myself as I don't have Gnome installed. If > synaptic really is a reliable frontend and you/someone can provide > a short paragraph on it, I'll be happy to include it. > Synaptic is a very good front end for system maintainance, until you get tired of waiting for your vendor to fix something, I mean its a known problem now for 2 years, but no new rpms of the defective package have been forthcoming, right? Right...
So you build and install the fix from a tarball, but because that now leaves an unfilled dependency, the only way synaptic will let you do _anything_ is to first rip out everything that missing dependency needs, reinstall the busted crap, and then you can install some other gee-gaw thats been put out by your vendor when they really should have been fixing bugs in their release instead. But RH=gnome fans, so they officially could care less about a kde problem. This system, mostly FC2, works great, but synaptic will flag and remove 41 packages, the absolute heart of the printing system if I'd let it, all because redhat has yet to fix the fact that cups as supplied with FC2 is broken and will crash half the kde portions of the XWindow system if you so much as hover the mouse over the "print manager" in the kde menu's. Someday I'll update to a later release, but something is going to have to be broken in somebodies mind besides synaptic's before I do. I have a NATing router between the firewall and the dsl modem, a pretty good firewall up on a seperate box, and plenty of guard dogs walking the perimeter of that box, so I don't worry about this one enough to lose any sleep over it... I probably should, but in a bit over 2 years, only 3 attempts have been logged (as dropped connections) in the firewall boxes logs. >Cheers, >FJP > >[1] It's nice to browse packages and especially to see files > installed by a package though. gnorpm used to be able to do that rather nicely. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
