On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:45, Jose Borges Ferreira wrote: > Debian has that for a long time. And now Conectiva have ported the > wonderful APT :D > > Just give a look at http://apt.freshrpms.net/ . It does what you > describe : "packages as you need". > > With alternatives intruduced in 7.3 this will work even better. This is > very powerful beacause you'll have a package call mta which can be > provided by sendmail,postfix,qmai,exim,etc and combining that with an > application that automaticlly satisfy your dependencies this will be > great > Does apt handle file-dependencies and obsoletes in rpm? -sv