Re: dependency tool for RedHat

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:48, Arnaud Abelard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> RedHat Linux is one of the last modern linux distributions not to have a
> dependency tool like apt-get, urpmi or autopkg included in the default
> intstallation.
> 
> Is there any plans on including apt-get for example in the next releases?
> 
> Apt-get for rpm is GPL, even thought it still seems to lock the RPM db (on
> RH9) it's pretty stable and would be a good choice.
> 
> I think that would be a really good point for RHL so have a kind of tool
> like that. There's more and more rpm depositories for apt-get
> (freshrpms.net, tuxfamily.org, etc) and people are starting to get used to
> it.
> 
> Is there a way we could contribute and get apt-get perhaps, to be included
> in the future releases?

yum is in rawhide now: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/

and apt-get and yum are available from freshrpms and fedora all ready to
go for red hat linux iirc.

-sv