I'm in full agreement with you Jim - RPM is good, but some sort of package management system that resolves deps is BADLY NEEDED. SuSE's Yast tool and Debian's apt-get are both a little clunky, but they get the job done. I hope that Redhat is planning to address this in the next release (are you reading this Trond?). Other than this, I'm pretty happy with Redhat, it does some things better than the other distros (hardware detection, to name just one).
regards, Robert Storey On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:03:02 -0500 "Jim Bija" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think RPM is great, but it is missing something that you would think is > just NEEDED. I have pulled my hair out MANY times chasing down DEPS. > As i understand it in debian when you install something it will go get what > you need no matter what it is and it WILL get installed for you. > RPM has a long way to go i think. I REALY look forward to newer ver's of RPM > and im SURE any redhat user feels the same. > Jim. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Storey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:42 PM > Subject: package management > > > > Being somewhat new to Redhat, I wonder if I haven't missed something > > when it comes to package management. > > > > Yes, I understand how to use RPM, and generally it works OK. The > > tricky part is when you have dependency errors. RPM tells you when you > > have dependency errors, but it doesn't resolve them for you. Same with > > GnomeRPM - you're told what's missing, but GnomeRPM doesn't go fetch > > the missing RPMs for you. > > > > I've used SuSE for awhile, which is also RPM-based. It's YAST > > installation program keeps a database of what's installed and resolves > > dependencies for you. Debian uses something similar with its apt-get > > program. So I'm wondering if there is something in Redhat that does > > the same job? The Redhat books that I've looked at all explain RPM > > thoroughly, but say nothing about an installation/package manager type > > of program. So I'm wondering if such a thing exists? I'm using RH 7.1. > > > > - Robert Storey > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
