A nice feature of urpmi would be the ability to urpmi from a URL and have it load all of the required dependencies. For instance:
# urpmi http://guillaume.cottenceau.free.fr/fb/frozen-bubble-0.9.1-1mdk.i586.rpm would download frozen-bubble-0.9.1-1mdk.i586.rpm and figure out what dependencies there were, install them (if they exist) and then install the downloaded URL. Of course there is the possibility that a dependency does not exist in the urpmi databases but that is no worse than the current state of affairs: # rpm -ivh http://guillaume.cottenceau.free.fr/fb/frozen-bubble-0.9.1-1mdk.i586.rpm [ get dependeny errors ] # urpmi <dependent packages> # rpm -ivh http://guillaume.cottenceau.free.fr/fb/frozen-bubble-0.9.1-1mdk.i586.rpm b. -- Brian J. Murrell
