I just tried RPMDrake for the first time the other night, and while it
"feels" slow, it's definitely no slower than KPackage on my system.
More likely a problem with the rpm way of doing things than RPMDrake.
So I, too, would like to thank MandrakeSoft for another good program.
Giles Hamlin wrote:
> I just tried playing with it again this evening, as I've finally given
> up hope of doing anything with apt-get for the time being <g> and I have
> to say...... WOW! It's a vast improvement on the version I used about 10
> days ago, and I found it quite easy to upgrade packages on my system to
> the latest cooker versions. Beforehand, I downloaded the latest RPM 4,
> urpmi and RPMDrake packages, and with the combination of these, RPMdrake
> is finally looking a viable option - oh, and it took maybe less than 10
> seconds to start up on my Athlon 550 so the speed is looking good too :-)
>
> Good work Mandrake!
>
> Giles
>
> P.S - Is it just me or does it look very much like the graphical front
> end that Corel designed for apt-get??
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