I knew about yum, but I had never used it until my involvement with FC3 test. I liked it. Joe average doesn't want a textual install/update tool. Put a synaptic type front end on yum and it too would be a winner. Ironically, yum on my machine is now broken <again> because the repos aren't pointing anywhere meaningful. On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:48 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:49 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > That was my point: synaptic and apt use rpms. So if I've got a > > dependency issue with apt and synaptic, I'll be having a dependency > > issue with rpms as well. I'd much, much rather use synaptic to take > > care of those issues than doing it manually with rpms. > > > > I've had to install packages in the past that have needed 6 to twelve > > other packages. (mplayer, xine, kdebase-devel of a new version, etc.) > > When synaptic can do the install it is much, much easier than manually > > doing it with rpms. > > > > I wasn't aware that synaptic was a single arch package. I don't think > > users care if synaptic isn't written in python. They just want a system > > to easily install packages with. I'd say it works pretty darn good > > 80-95% of the time. > > > I understand it is not graphical (yet) but you do know that yum exists, > right? > > yum install nameofpackage > > it will download and install all the dependencies you need, too. > > -sv > > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc