Re: [MLUG] Linux OS advice

[Herbert Wolverson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:15:52PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> 
> >One of my clients runs Mandrake 10, and likes it a lot. He's not much of
> >a geek, either; he's up and running just fine for general usage, but he
> >still calls me when he wants to install something that doesn't have an
> >obvious Mandrake RPM available for it (most of the time the installation is
> >as easy as downloading the RPM, clicking it, and then finding RPMs for all
> >of the dependencies - clicking them, etc.; time consuming rather than
> >difficult).
> >
> Install Red Carpet. Then you don't have to resolve dependencies by 
> yourself. It's like apt-get, only better.

I liked what I saw of Red Carpet (quite a while ago), but it wasn't as complete
as apt or the BSD ports collection in terms of the number of packages it took
care of. Has this improved now?

-- Herbert.
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