Re: Red Carpet available for FC2 -- please try it out

[Jim Higson <jh 333 org>]

On Friday 16 July 2004 14:34, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:44, Jim Higson wrote:
> > I can't find (much) information on how RedCarpet works - is it just a
> > front end like synaptic, or a whole upgrade and install method?
> >
> > If the former then great! Otherwise I'm cautious. apt and yum do the
> > background work very well (although they could have better gui
> > interfaces) three upgrade agents seems too many.
>
> Vladimir (the packager of Red Carpet for FC2) said this on the rc-devel
>
> list:
> > Red Carpet (or, more accurately, the Red Carpet Daemon) talks directly
> > to rpm via librpm; it is not a front end to yum/apt/etc.  RC existed
> > (I believe) before yum, probably at a time close to when apt-rpm was
> > first being worked on.  Red Carpet also has a number of features that
> > apt/yum do not have -- the ability to give non-root users the right to
> > install/upgrade packages (limited by source channel), and the ability
> > to manage packages on a remote system through the same interface
> > (either rug or red-carpet), if the rcd daemon is enabled to talk to
> > the network.  I think both of these would be great features for
> > Fedora.

Personally, I'd rather stick with apt, not least because of the similarities 
gained between two of the biggest distros (Redhat + Debian)

Also, a good front end is all very well and good, but front ends come and go. 
If the core program is stable, it can be wrapped in any kind of GUI.