[RULE] About urpmi

[M. Fioretti]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 04:23:16 at 04:23:16AM +0100, Alan Le Corre (alan.lecorre at wanadoo.fr) wrote:
> Hi, my name is alan, i am a french student.
> 
> I think urpmi can be very useful for RULE 
> 
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html
> 
> What's it?
> urpmi - rpm wrapper handling dependencies making installs easier
> 
>  Just give to urpmi the package you want and it will install it, taking 
> packages either from cdrom, ftp or local repository of rpms. The nice thing 
> is that dependencies are handled. It even handles multi-cd (asks you politely 
> to enter the cd labeled ``xxx'').
> 
> Have you heard about apt-get? Well, urpmi does the same for rpms :)
> You can compare rpm vs urpmi with insmod vs modprobe or dpkg vs apt-get. 
> [...]

Alan,
first of all welcome to the project. Believe it or not, I was thinking
last week that somebody translating the web page to French would be
wonderful :-) ...

As far as urpmi and apt are concerned, yes, we (well I at least) have
already heard of them. The reason why they are not specifically
mentioned in the website yet is that we need to look at the dependency
problem with an almost opposite approach first.

urpmi and apt are perfect for the user who says "I have no time, but a
new PC with a lot of RAM and disk space to waste: just install this,
even if it causes 50 more unneeded packages to fill my PC"

Before that, we need to answer to questions like: " I need to browse
the web, except flash sites, and to exchange digitally signed email:
what is the combination of packages which gives these functions with
the smallest usage of disk, RAM and CPU cycles?"

We also need to find automatically the answer to questions like:
"given a very basic install, which of these ten browsers can be used
with the smallest amount of extra packages installed?"

urpmi and apt, as far as I know, are not built to deal with this kind
of problem. Please correct me if I'm wrong. This is what led to the
experiments with the DAn tool:
http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/dan.php" Any help in porting it to
RH 8.0, and generally to complete it are really welcome. If the same
results can be achieved with other existing tools, please let us know.

	Ciao,
			Marco Fioretti
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