[lug] mandriva 10.2 limited edition 2005

[Michael Hirsch]

On 8/31/05, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu> wrote:
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> 
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> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Michael Belanger wrote:
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> > On Wed, August 31, 2005 9:09 am, Michael Hirsch said:
> > > Hugh,
> > >
> > > I'm glad you found the extra urpm site. Even though the release came 
> on 6
> > > CDs, it seems like there are still a few critical rpms on the net, 
> only. I
> > > don't know why they do that--sometimes I think that they just forgot 
> to
> > > put
> > > them on the CD.
> >
> > That was what really turned me off to debian. I spent a week downloading
> > umpteen cd images, burned them all, and it STILL had dependency issues.
> > Debian is good -- once you do get it installed and working. I have yet 
> to
> > successfully get a running gentoo install -- and I really wanted it to
> > work.
> > Too bad my desire didn't just will it to work. I imaging Gentoo, once
> > initially installed, is pretty slick. Its a shame.
> >
> > So, sigh, I had to go back to Fedora and their brief lifecycles and 
> their
> > vanilla i386 builds. argh.
> >
> 
> 
> With debian, I just downloaded the installer CD (about 100MB) and then let
> it go from there. I like with Debian that I can just apt-get install
> <foo> when I need/want it.
> 
> I think what threw me with Mandrake was that it used to be all about the
> cd and if it wasn't on the CD, you were building it from source (I haven't
> used mandrake since 5.3 can you tell? :)
> 
> It looks like they are moving to a more debian-esque set up with the
> repositories being definitive and the cd's as a means of bootstrapping to
> get at the repositories.


It seems like everyone is moving that way. We have apt, yast, urpm, yum, and 
yast which all work essentially alike as far as package installation goes. 
apt and urpm are scriptable--I don't know about the others. And there are 
pretty decent GUI for them all, too. Actually, I'm not sure about yum, but 
the rest have at least one each. apt has more than one: synaptic, kynaptic, 
and kpackage. Seems like a few of the distributions should get together and 
agree on something. My preference is apt with a synaptic front end, but I 
don't really care. It just seems like there is a lot of duplicated effort 
going on.

Michael

Michael
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