[NTLUG:Discuss] An NTLUG Distro

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Apr 2 14:39:04 CDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0500, Rev. wRy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:26 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
> > What rpm needs then is something like apt that does the resolution of
> > packages.  Is that Yum?  My complaint against RPM is that when using it
> > I get trapped in this infinitely recursive 'X depends on Y which depends
> > on Z which...".  If Yum does the same as Apt, then my complaint is negated.
> 
> It is yum.

FWIW, when I was using rpm-based distros I had very good success with
the Smart package manager (http://labix.org/smart) -- I ended up
liking it much better than Yum.  Of course, this was about two years
ago.

Pm



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