On Debian and Fedora experiences

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 04 December 2006 at 14:34, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Matej Cepl scripst:
> > 	Not only that I am really missing aptitude (for those who don't know --
> > ncurses based frontend for apt-get, which allows browsing, searching,
> > installation, upgrades, anything you want to do with your packages, plus
> > it is able to remeber which packages were installed just to satisfy
> > dependencies, so when they are not needed they are automatically removed
> > as well). I know about apt-rpm, but aptitude still doesn't work with it --
> > mornfall (aka Peter Rockai aka prockai<at>redhat<dot>com) is working but
> > so far without much success AFAIK. Don't even think about comparing it to
> > pirut/pup -- that's like comparing Porsche to Trabant (for Americans --
> > imagine Yugo built from plastic -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant).
> 
> And one more I forgot -- I really miss Suggests: and Recommends: Having
> aalib required to be installed (take a look at rpm -qi aalib -- do you
> think you really need it?) makes me really home-sick after Debian.

New RPM (4.4.6+?) supports these soft requires tag.

Regards,
R.

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