Sounds like a winner to me. I've lost a couple of days this week trying
to download rpms, only to find that I need to download others because of
dependency issues. Never did get the package installed that started this
whole saga.
Glen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Darxus wrote:
>
>I have no desire to start a distro war. I'm sure all distrobutions are
>wonderful for somebody.
>
>My two favorites are RedHat and Debian.
>
>*The* reason I prefer Debian is apt
>(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/apt.html).
>
>I've just been put in charge of a bunch of RedHat boxes at the company I
>just started working at. I have no objection to the selected
>distrobution, nor do I have any intention of, nor desire to change them.
>
>My one frustration is the difficulty in locating and installing packages.
>Yes, RPMs are, for this, much more convienient than tarballs. But I think
>adding apt (or something similar -- I'm sure apt is GPLed, and I would
>actually prefer the use of apt, assuming it could be adapted) would be
>wonderful.
>
>Being able to do
>
> apt-get install ssh
>
>And know that that will download everything (including other packages it
>may depend on) necessary to install ssh, install it, and start up the
>server, is mighty convienient.
>
>rpmfind is a nice start, but 1) I don't believe it's even supported by
>RedHat, and 2) apt is better.
>
>Being able to do
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>and automatically download the current versions of all installed packages,
>and upgrade them, is also rather convienient.
>
>Again, I'm not trying to start a war.
>I'm just asking for apt-like capabilities in RedHat.
>
>I'm also open to the possibility that I've missed something, and that
>RedHat's got a similar or better solution that I have not heard of. I'd
>be happy to hear it.
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