Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 08, 2002 06:36 PM
For your information the new installer resolves dependencies. Of course for being able to install random RPMS from the net there are more thn athat who are needed like: a central database where people would registeer their RPMS and real, well written specs for making proper RPMS (many "free-lance" RPMS are quite bad). Now I have to hand-held an _expert_ user whose D... distro didn't configure X correctly (a thing Redhat has done right since 1994) andwas unable to do the right thing about his PCI ethernet card. For the uninitiated: in order to detect a PCI card the only thing you have to do is to parse<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/proc/pci and then look in a database. A task suited teaching programming for kindergarten child but the D... demigods have been unable to implement it in the over six years the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/proc/pci interface has been around.
So installing random packages from the Internet is nice but having a _real_ installer, decent config tools, sensible application programs (not every bit of junk floating in the net) and a good environment for _working_ (you don't spend your life installing things isn't it?) are IMHO far more important.
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Re:Quick question
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 08, 2002 06:36 PMSo installing random packages from the Internet is nice but having a _real_ installer, decent config tools, sensible application programs (not every bit of junk floating in the net) and a good environment for _working_ (you don't spend your life installing things isn't it?) are IMHO far more important.
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