[clue-tech] Presentation on Ubunto/Debian?

[Greg Knaddison]

On 6/1/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> In the time that you've been away from RPM-based distros, that gap has
> been filled.  For instance, the last two Fedora Core versions (2 & 3)
> shipped with a tool called "yum" thats basically an apt clone for RPM
> package repositories.  So one can run:
> 
>   yum install somepackage-devel
> 
> and auto-magically have all the package dependencies satisfied and all
> the necessary RPMs located, downloaded, and installed.
> 

Yeah, there is discussion on the yum lists about having yum do source
builds and such, but isn't the original problem with packages that
_don't_ have an RPM?  Yum only resolves dependancies for _RPMs_ that
are listed with their dependancy.  Otherwise, if you are building from
source, yum currently gives you nada.

Greg