Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 17, 2004 08:45 AM
>Used Mandrake for six months--it's not bad, but >their proprietary RPM system is not apt-get.
Small correction -- Mandrake's URPMI isn't proprietary, in any sense of the word. It is, however, used by Mandrake exclusively. The code is open source, and other distros are certainly free to use the same system... but haven't. Probably because apt and yum provide the same functionality.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 17, 2004 08:45 AM>their proprietary RPM system is not apt-get.
Small correction -- Mandrake's URPMI isn't proprietary, in any sense of the word. It is, however, used by Mandrake exclusively. The code is open source, and other distros are certainly free to use the same system... but haven't. Probably because apt and yum provide the same functionality.
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