> Just in case that two years that you used Mandrake was more than a year > ago, Mandrake has way-easy package management now, included even (you > don't have to download apt after installation). Urpmi works beautifully > from the command line or from the Drakconf gui. Get all your sources > from Easy Urpmi (http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php) and life is > so simple.
I last used Mandrake 8.1 (maybe it was 8.2). I tried urpmi, but it sucked. I stopped using mdk about 6 months ago. It is a fine distro. I will not knock it, I will say that the pkg management is not as nice as portage. The post I responded to stated that it was a great distro for beginners and experienced hackers. I disagree since I have a hard time thinking that rpm is as nice a system as portage. It says a lot to me that mdk and rh are in the process of making rpm work like systems like portage, ports, and apt. On the other hand, as Evan once pointed out, rpm is a good system for updating packages for entire sites. I would not want to install pkgs from source on 10s, 100s, or 1000s of computers. So systems like rpm and portage each have strengths and weaknesses. Just in my experience portage is much more of what I wanted as an experienced linux user. Of course others opinions are going to be different. -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963
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