Can't install from CD after initial install - Is this in Bugzilla?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 17 00:35:23 UTC 2004


Preston Crawford said:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:05, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
>> > Now sure, Yum works great. Sure yum is easier. But there are some
>> things you wouldn't want to install via yum (OpenOffice, for example)
>> if you could help it. And yet this remains unfixed.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want to use yum to install
>> OpenOffice? That's exactly the sort of big, complicated, potentially
>> fraught with odd dependencies sort of package that I -do- want to ues
>> yum for.
>
> Well, first of all the CD handles dependencies as well when you install
> something like that.

So does yum (and up2date and apt).  That is the whole point for them to
exist.

-- 
William Hooper





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