Redhat installation source change

[aacton-B71PBEe7S7Y at public.gmane.org]

Quoting Brice Chaffin <bchaffin-//MPyowsN0+FX2APIN6yfw at public.gmane.org>:
> Well, I looked for that answer in a Red Hat installation handbook. Could'nt
> find it. Sorry.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Byron Sonne 
> > Is it just me, or is Redhat a terrible fuckin' distro? How the hell do I 
> > change my installation source settings... I installed of a boot cd but 
> > now want to add packages with an ftp source. 

The easy answer is: use Mandrake or Debian instead.

Unfortunately for the linux community, the huge popularity of RedHat (and
consequently the ubiquity of RPM) has tainted the concept of linux package
management with hellish tales of "dependency hell", lack of control, difficult
upgrades, and limited choices of package media/repositories.

Had RedHat done a better job in the first place, urpmi/apt/yum et al would not
have been so necessary.

Austin
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