[ale] Package Management System

[David Corbin]

On Friday 25 July 2003 20:56, Bruce Griffis wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2003 06:05 pm, Debrihmi wrote:
> > Hello there!
> >
> > Most everybody agrees that one of the greatest stumbling blocks to the
> > mass adoption of Linux is this Package Management System (or lack
> > there-of)..
> >
> > If one a Package Management System were to be adpoted across the board,
> > what would you vote for, AND WHY..  Or do you think we should "go back to
> > the drawing board?"..
> >
> > ~
> > Debrihmi
>
> I'm comfortable with Mandrake's command-line urpmi and graphical rpmdrake.
> Both VERY simple for a first-timer. I also tried SuSE's live-eval CD and am
> seriously considering making a partition to play with SuSE's YAST.
>
> Why do I like them? Very simple for a person new to Linux.

But, in my experience (and it could easily be based on bad information) the 
"source database" (i.e., all the packages and the meta-data for them) used by 
urpmi tends to be extremely flakey and unreliable when compared to Debian's.
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