A possible solution in the meantime is, as you point out, use apt for rpm (available from freshrpms) or yum (I think also available from freshrpms) I don't remember where synaptic is hosted but a web search should find it I agree, if an iso is not available (and I can understand the business reasons why it might not be), a rpm download agrent would be a nice tool to have included by default (especially if you could browse the available packages .. the one innovative thing that lindows actually provides) Phillip Compton (pcompton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 08:59, Willem Riede wrote: > >> You're missing the point. Igor recognizes the existance of such repositories. >> His plea is to Red Hat to provide a less scary way to pull those into an >> installation. I think that would be greatly appreciated by newbies, but it >> would possibly pose support issues that Red Hat wouldn't want to take on... >> > >If RedHat include apt or yum (configured for FreshRPMS, Fedora, etc), >with a nice little gui like synaptic, I think most people's problems >would be taken care of. They could include a nice little click-through >disclaimer about the fact that the packages are not supported by RedHat, >and all would be well. > > >Phil > > > -- Brian Johnson * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) *
