[RULE] APT, YUM or URPMI on RULE, was: Mini-KDE

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 18:47:36 PM +0100, Liam Proven
 lproven at cix.co.uk  wrote: 
 
> Is there any way to install APT (or failing that, YUM or URPMI) on
> RULE?

The very same as on Red Hat or Fedora (this is what I call "the beauty
of *not* being another distribution"): install manually with rpm -Uvh,
from command line, the standard package(s) from the CDs, then use
it. BUT...

> It makes this kind of question irrelevant - just installing the
> package you want automatically brings in anything it needs to
> satisfy all the dependencies.

...if you just do this with the standard repositories on an old
computer you are toast: the hard drive will be filled up in one
nanosecond by unneeded or generally bloated stuff, from locales for
all the languages you'll never speak to plugins for every database
known to man...

apt or equivalent should be installable with RULE, but until we or
somebody else find the way to create alternate, light repositories,
they just let in from the back entrance the problem we kicked out
giving up anaconda: bloated packages and, shall we say,
over/ill conceived dependency. That's why I came up with the mini-kde
thing: try to figure out how to make an rpm set with less
dependencies.

Ciao,
	Marco

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Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Red Hat & Fedora for low memory   http://www.rule-project.org/

I was lucky enough to born in 1966, which gave me the liberty of
passing my childhood in a world that didn't [need] coloured TV,
computers, Disney Shops, McDonalds, a media to tell it what to
think. Instead my mum used to read me poetry and tell me about her
life, and my dad used to sing me to sleep...            Laura Hird

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