On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:00:39 -0500 The Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a > 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. Well, a package manager per se is really a database front end, and the database is either going to be what's in /var/lib/rpm, or the equivalent in an apt-get based system, or what have you. Other distributions have package management systems -- for instance, apt in debian and derived distributions, emerge for gentoo, packman for arch, and so forth. I've heard for instance that apt is superior to what we have (urpmi) but I am skeptical. It boils down to whether or not you have good repositories, more than whether or not your system is apt based or urpmi based, at least in my humble opinion :). One person in particular has been thinking along the lines of "apt-get Mandrake" as he puts it, saying that apt is better than urpmi. I'm not so sure, but it's intriguing. I tried apt once on Mandrake a while ago, and wasn't really impressed with the results. But I think my experience was because there wasn't a good source list set up. He also mentioned something called "synaptics" - I am not sure of the exact spelling, since a google search gave me mostly results for some touchpad device. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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