On Sat, 15 May 2004, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:59:05PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > Sure "source" and "build-dep" and such work in apt-rpm as well. In fact > > apt-rpm is in many ways far more advanced than "Debian apt". See > > http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/ for a list of some killer features (IMHO) > > in apt-rpm which are not present in Debian version. > > My favorite one is installing packages by filename. That's so useful. Indeed (and dont forget installing by an arbitrary URL either :) AFAIK apt is the only one of the depsolvers which supports that, or at least that was the case last I checked. I know Adrian wants to add that support to up2date (there is/was a comment in up2date source about that being "unnecessarily difficult to do at the moment"), dunno if Seth is considering adding that to yum. - Panu - -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
