Hi people. Does anybody here use apt-rpm to install packages? I bet some do. I wanted to know if there are any plans to make the apt-rpm & synaptic combo more integrated in the Fedora distribution. I think synaptic makes a much more powerful and flexible alternative to the system-config-packages tool. I filed a enhancement http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137260 (no idea if it is in the right place or if it is a good idea to do that). All I think is needed to make things really better when in comes to adding and removing packages is to make the Fedora ISO images include the apt-rpm metadata so the CDs can be used with apt-cdrom. Browsing bugzilla I see some efforts regarding apt-rpm are in making the up2date applet capable of updating Fedora from apt repositories. This is good, but that application is not suitable for anything but updating packages already installed when there are newer versions. I know the red hat people likes developing the system-config- tools in Python and keep them as a "distinctive feature". I think they are reinventing the wheel, but if that is their choice, go ahead. I think the best tool for the job is Synaptic + apt-rpm, if only the CD were apt-enabled.
