On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Oren Held wrote:
> The difference between RH & SuSE is not huge, but I still like SuSE,
> especially because of the nice setup program('yast'). It's not just an
> administrating program, but also lets you install/remove/update .rpm
> packages in a very nice way. And 'sax' is also a very nice X configurator,
> though it's not a reason to prefer one distro on
> the other..
But still...
redhat does come with gnorpm on its default desktop. I don't know sax too
well, but how does it compare with kpackage and gnorpm?
Speaking of rpm installation tools:
Mandrake has a program called urpmi for installing rpm packages from
repositories ("rpm medias") with the required dependencies. Mandrake's gui
for rpm installations (rpmdrake) uses urpmi.
urpmi has another feature that I disabled - the "u" is for user, and it is
an suid program (but I removed this bit). The idea here is that you allow
the user to install an rpm from a selected group of rpms.
How does rpmdrake compare with the guis mentioned above?
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