On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:37:27PM +0100, John Allen wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 8 Oct 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > > > And I'm sure many other persons use rpmdrake2 and are very happy > > > with it. > > > > rpmdrake2 is wonderful. But, it still keeps surprising me how people > > think. The last few days I've been helping a person trying to get mandrake > > running. He's not so computer illiterate, but only knows windows and dos. > > Somehow, he tried to install all kinds of programs from source or binary > > tarbal, without even trying to use rpmdrake (ofcourse he might have not > > found the programs he was looking for because only 1 CD was added as > > media, since he only downloaded the first CD). So could rpmdrake > > provide info on packages, even if there is no media available for it? > > > > It does provide the list. The first CD should contain all the hdlists for the > 3 CDs.
and why not for contrib as well? that list is known when the CD's go to the press, all the user would need to do is configure networking and select a mirror. /Simon
