Preston Crawford said: > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:05, Bevan C. Bennett wrote: >> > Now sure, Yum works great. Sure yum is easier. But there are some >> things you wouldn't want to install via yum (OpenOffice, for example) >> if you could help it. And yet this remains unfixed. >> >> Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want to use yum to install >> OpenOffice? That's exactly the sort of big, complicated, potentially >> fraught with odd dependencies sort of package that I -do- want to ues >> yum for. > > Well, first of all the CD handles dependencies as well when you install > something like that. So does yum (and up2date and apt). That is the whole point for them to exist. -- William Hooper
