Aaron Bennett said:that rocks. Does Yum support resolving local packages's dependencies with remote repositories yet? Yum is so much more compact then apt-get, and I really like that it uses rpm-lib instead of dumping all the rpms into one giant and ass-ugly --nodeps system call.
this is where fedora needs to more seriously look at apt as something default, and getting synaptic to behave more like apt on the command line.
i've changed the default behaviour on my gnome desktop to run 'apt-get update && apt-get install %s' (not exactly, there's a wrapper script), but apt checks the rpm file and then downloads the requirements. synaptic needs to do this, which i've tried and it doesn't work. i havn't been able to find any real documentation on the command line flags for it. if a pretty gui came up and grabbed all the dependencies for you, users would be very happy. i feel taken care of when apt comes up in a terminal and installs what i need.
Also, eventually system-config-packages will probably be better or as good as synaptic.
-- Aaron Bennett UNIX Administrator Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
