On 22 May 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:22, Jose Borges Ferreira wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 00:09, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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? > > > > File dependecies yes . Obsoletes too. > > Umm. where does it do this? > > I was looking at the pkglist list file and I see SOME file names but not > complete file listings. > > Where is storing the file lists? You need to create the apt-repository with --bloat option: http://distro.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2000-December/000089.html - Panu -
