[WBEL-users] Re: RPM Gui?

[Tony]

If you are using true packages, yes they go to the official set of 
repositories and collect all the other things you need. 

However If you use the ports tree, which is the preferred way to
mantain a *BSD system, it also searches the *original* location
for the files, not just the 'official' repositories..  ( and again collecting
any dependencies along the way ). 

Personally, i feel  its a MUCH more efficient and controllable system 
then any of the current linux package managers has..

True, it takes some work on the ports maintainers to keep it all in order, 
but for the rest of us, its just automagic as it 'just works' .

( though a nice pretty graphical front end for ports would be nice for 
beginner admins.. there might be one, i just havent noticed it  )

And yes, things have improved *greatly* in the linux world, but it still 
quickly becomes a nightmare if you deviate from your distributions 
standards..  Once you deviate from what your distribution offers on the
CDs you get, it can get hairy..

just my 2 cents......



>
> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 09:45, William Hooper wrote:
> > >> Maybe I'm missing something, but you are expecting a dep solver to go,
> > >> search the internet, find the mysql.com site, figure out what to
> > >> download, and then install it?
> > >
> > > NetBSD pkgsrc does this automatically. Debian's package system does as
> > > well.
> >
> > No they don't.  They get packages from package repositories, just like
> > yum and up2date do.
>