[wplug] SLES 9.0 questions

[Vanco, Don]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Michael A. Smith
>Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:01 PM
>To: General user list
>Subject: Re: [wplug] SLES 9.0 questions

>> - sure, it doesn't scream at you about unsatisfied dependencies -
>>it just downloads the 25 additional packages to satisfy them so I can
>>play Mahjong.
>>
>Use the -a option to check dependencies before beginning installation. 
>Set your USE flags carefully to minimize (unnecessary) dependencies. 
>There's a whole lot more dependency-handling power in Portage, 
>too, but 
>suffice it to say it's there.
	Yes - the USE stuff is pretty handy once you figure out how to
set it up.  The first time I tried Gentoo the docs on this were abysmal.
The last time I tried it things had improved much.

>
>>  Yeah - I know, apt and yum work on RPM distros, but I've
>>broken more installs (of FC1 and 2) with those tools than I have with
>>RPM alone - and once they're broken backing out can be a PITA 
>(something
>>RPM does quite well, right down to the config file level).  I 
>would love
>>for RH or SuSE to grab onto those tools and make them a bit 
>more stable
>>- but it's not possible to do so  without total control of the
>>repositories - that's why YAST and RHN are tied to them in the first
>>place.
>>
>Perhaps 'stable' was the wrong word to use here. Apt seems perfectly 
>stable on Debian. The problem may lie elsewhere in the chain, say 
>apt4rpm , for one possibility.
	My bad - it was meant to infer that apt/yum are a bit shaky on
RH/SuSE...  If your repository goes down in mid-update you are f-ed (and
I simply cannot believe how often this happens for whatever reason -
this is the sole reason I abandoned FC distros). There is also no pretty
way to back out once that happens..
Don