On Friday 16 July 2004 14:34, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:44, Jim Higson wrote: > > I can't find (much) information on how RedCarpet works - is it just a > > front end like synaptic, or a whole upgrade and install method? > > > > If the former then great! Otherwise I'm cautious. apt and yum do the > > background work very well (although they could have better gui > > interfaces) three upgrade agents seems too many. > > Vladimir (the packager of Red Carpet for FC2) said this on the rc-devel > > list: > > Red Carpet (or, more accurately, the Red Carpet Daemon) talks directly > > to rpm via librpm; it is not a front end to yum/apt/etc. RC existed > > (I believe) before yum, probably at a time close to when apt-rpm was > > first being worked on. Red Carpet also has a number of features that > > apt/yum do not have -- the ability to give non-root users the right to > > install/upgrade packages (limited by source channel), and the ability > > to manage packages on a remote system through the same interface > > (either rug or red-carpet), if the rcd daemon is enabled to talk to > > the network. I think both of these would be great features for > > Fedora. Personally, I'd rather stick with apt, not least because of the similarities gained between two of the biggest distros (Redhat + Debian) Also, a good front end is all very well and good, but front ends come and go. If the core program is stable, it can be wrapped in any kind of GUI.
