Jean Francois Martinez wrote : > No thanks and no thanks to any software based on apt-get. Apt-get uses > --force --nodeps when installing RPMs. That is more than enough reasn > to not use it. YUM is the way to go. Now if only it had a front end > for browsing the list of available packages... Hmmm, apt is bloated c++ code, yes, but it can come in handy. Maybe you should try apt again, it's been long since it doesn't use --force nor --nodeps anymore. It operates quite smoothly, and performance is overall improving with every new release. Yum is cool though. Want to code a nice PyGTK frontend inspired by synaptic? ;-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030511 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-9 Load : 0.61 0.35 0.37
