Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

[Jeffrey Stephens]

On Monday 12 January 2004 18:49, Brad Tarver wrote:
> Is that not included in the kdeutils package?
>
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com on behalf of Simon Perreault
> 	Sent: Mon 1/12/2004 5:32 PM
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> 	Subject: Re: Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify
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> 	On January 12, 2004 17:40, Jeffrey Stephens wrote:
> 	>   Does anyone know why the Fedora distribution does not include the
> 	> "kpackage" application?
>
> 	That's because kpackage duplicated some functionality already present in
> the Red Hat package management application.
>
> 	IMHO, it is not a good reason to remove it and it should be brought back.
> It works, and does not break anything.
>
> 	--
> 	Simon Perreault <nomis80 at nomis80.org> -- http://nomis80.org
>

   IMHO the Redhat package management is 100% pure-dee Worthless!  Kpackage 
will install any RPM (RHPM only displays the original CD set's packages and, 
I assume, only installs from there).  Kpackage shows what a package provides, 
what it depends on, all the files it provides and their locations.  This is 
very useful information.  In addition, Kpackage provides a convenient way to 
view what files are installed on your system, to go down the list in the left 
window, and delete the one's which were installed that you never wanted in 
the first place!  The loss of kpackage without providing a replacement 
application that provided all this info in a convenient graphical environment 
is UNCONSCIONABLE!!  This is the reason I switched from RedHat to SuSE to 
begin with, but I hoped that Fedora would rectify this mistake.  Redhat also
removed GnoRPM from Gnome.  I don't see how kpackage could interfere with
anything in Redhat's worthless PMS, or GnoRPM either.  This decision really
pisses me OFF!

Regards,
JeffS