[oclug] Good Point

Andrew J. Hutton ajh at achilles.net
Thu Mar 22 17:21:14 EST 2001


On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:56:18PM -0500, Kevin Everets wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:21:04PM -0500, Andrew J. Hutton wrote:
> > Install red-carpet, I've been using it for a bit now and it works
> > quite well.  Very pretty, more flexible than apt in many ways although
> > I do have some private reservations about the direction it will take
> > but for now, it looks quite nice.
> 
> Interesting: more flexible than apt?  In what way?

The goal is to built a distribution independant package management
system that has vendor specific channels.  You'll need to take a look
at the application to really understand the direction they're taking
it in.  It does work quite well now though.

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