On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 10:45, Robert Goshko wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:09, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > > Rob, > > > > if you downloaded all the packages, then you manually did what Red > > Carpet did ! > > I mean, you installed some other packages that could, one day, conflict > > with the ones from Mandrake. > > Am I correct ? > > Stefano, > > In theory, but from some of the postings I've seen on the Ximain User > mailing list, this seems to vary. I hear lots of people complaining > about how "Red Carpet did this and that to my system". > > I have never tried it so I cannot tell you first hand. I am always a > little "weary" of "just push the button and we will download what you > need and install it" software, call me old fashioned, but if the system > is going to get pooched, I would like to do it myself, at least I'll > know exactly what I did. >
The thing about RPM auto-installers (urpmi too) is that they work fine when a distribution is fresh. The problems arise when you want to install new stuff on said distribution and have to update 7/10ths of the system to satisfy dependencies that may or may not actually exist in the world outside of the RPM database. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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