[TriLUG] kpilot (Palm Pilot under KDE/Linux)

Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney alchemist at darkcanvas.com
Mon Jan 14 08:06:09 EST 2002


On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 00:41, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> No need.  Mandrake has urpmi which does the same thing.  And,
> Conectiva Linux has written a back-end for apt-get that handles
> rpm dependencies.  Mandrake repositories are already apt enabled,
> and, although Redhat ones aren't some people have put up ones
> that are.

yes. As I understand it, the biggest problem in apt-enabling a
repository is building the index for dependencies. Once done, though,
apt is a great tool. I don't use it on my RHL systems, because I don't
trust it yet. 

On a Deb system, though, apt kicks much booty.

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