SuSE's pkg managemetn

Lloyd D Budd lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 6 22:05:42 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:30, Byron Sonne wrote:

> > My reason for only
> > dealing with it when I have to, which is actually quite a bit, is its
> > closed source pkg management system.  For me to choose a closed source
> > solution, I have to find a very good reason.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by closed source package management system. 
> It's all rpm based, you could work your package management via nothing 
> but an xterm if you wanted to.

What does "work your package management" mean to you?  For example,
using only OSS can you manage and update your software almost as well as
you can on Debian?


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