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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:35:17 +0000 Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Well I'd say I prefer Debian based distros mainly because of the > > Debian Package Manager, I much prefer it to the dependency hell I > > get into with RPM based distros (yum doesn't help me at all). I > > guess that Debian and it's derivatives tend to just work and are > > easy to configure. > > What ever happened to urpmi? when i used to use Mandrake "back in the > day" it seemed to do automatic dependency tracking in a similar way to > apt, the biggest problem i had was dependency hell due to bad > packaging. Urpmi seemed to die the death. I remember that it *could* be OK, and it handled multiple instances of removable mediums quite nicely, but in my opinion it still needed some tweaking. Have Mandriva moved away from Urpmi then? Please tell me they're not another YUM bunch? G. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html