On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:24:18PM -0500, Eric Warnke wrote: > Please positive feedback only. <puzzled/> What does this mean? > usermode/utempter - overlaps with sudo I thought utempter does something completely different... usermode-gtk provides the "type root password to run system-config-*" in X; while it does "overlap" with sudo, it can't be _replaced_ by sudo. > nut - nice package, but is it really core materal? It is one of the basic utilities needed on a "serious" server of any kind. > dosfttools - looks like mtools superceeds this package. The other way around - mounting is more useful than mcopy. But _both_ are required for mkbootdisk. > MAKEDEV - Superceeded by udev ? Required by udev, actually. > talk - protocol is getting old with IM UNIX kernel interface is "getting old" too. > planner - anther project managment tool "Another"? What is the alternative? > g-wrap - Another wrapper for a development utility d:0 Required by gnucash. (The simplest way to test dependencies of a package against a rpmdb is probably (rpm --dbpath ... -e --test $package). This takes into account all the provides: in a package.) Mirek
