Re: [MLUG] Linux OS advice

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>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?
>
Since RedCarpet 2 you've been able to add additional channels and anyone 
is able to set up their own channel. Probably not yet on par with the 
number of Debian package sources out there but it's getting there. Also 
rug, the command-line utility (part of Red Carpet) , is much nicer to 
use than apt. It's just better thought out. Being experienced in both 
rpm and deb I can really say that the combination of rug + rpm is easier 
than the assortment of tools required to work with deb packages.

If RedHat had any sense they'd make Red Carpet their default package 
management tool. The only thing I still feel the need for, something as 
easy to work with as tar, is for a good rpm packaging tool. Something 
that maybe doesn't offer the flexibility of existing solutions but that 
is extremely easy to use. Something with a GUI as easy to use as WinZip. 
Even if all it did was let you select files and indicate where in the 
file tree they should be installed. As rpm's instead of tarballs they 
could clean up neatly after themselves which IMO is important. Using 
tarballs you lose the clean transactions of adding/removing software 
with packages.
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