Re: replacing XMMS

[Aaron Bennett <aaron bennett olin edu>]

duncan brown wrote:

> Aaron Bennett said:
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> this is where fedora needs to more seriously look at apt as something
> default, and getting synaptic to behave more like apt on the command line.
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> i've changed the default behaviour on my gnome desktop to run 'apt-get
> update && apt-get install %s' (not exactly, there's a wrapper script), but
> apt checks the rpm file and then downloads the requirements.  synaptic
> needs to do this, which i've tried and it doesn't work.  i havn't been
> able to find any real documentation on the command line flags for it.  if
> a pretty gui came up and grabbed all the dependencies for you, users would
> be very happy.  i feel taken care of when apt comes up in a terminal and
> installs what i need.
that rocks.  Does Yum support resolving local packages's dependencies 
with remote repositories yet?  Yum is so much more compact then apt-get, 
and I really like that it uses rpm-lib instead of dumping all the rpms 
into one giant and ass-ugly --nodeps system call.

Also, eventually system-config-packages will probably be better or as 
good as synaptic. 


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Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering