[Mageia-discuss] New Wikipedia Mageia testpage launched (was: page of Mageia in wikipedia (in english) has been deleted)

Tue May 22 15:29:04 CEST 2012

AL13N a écrit :
+>> On Tuesday 22 May 2012 12:23, AL13N wrote:
+>>      
+>>> also, package manager isn't RPM, it's "urpmi (RPM)"
+>>>        
+>> I have to disagree. RPM is the package manager. The urpm tools are just
+>> frontends for RPM.
+>>      
+> i don't agree at all.
+>
+> automatic dependency handling is code that comes from urpmi and not RPM
+> (RPMv5 for instance does that in itself).
+>    
+That project name is RPM5 (as opposed to RPM).  It is only used by 
+Mandriva, according to rpmfind.net
+
+> if Fedora lists yum as package manager, we should put urpmi there.
+>
+> imho, if rpm doesn't do automatic dependency handling, then it's not a
+> real package manager (contrary to what it name says), and it seems at
+> least fedora agrees with me.
+>
+>    
+the Wikipedia listing for Fedora lists Update method = Yum (PackageKit), 
+and Package manager = RPM Package Manager.
+we have Update method = urpmi (rpmdrake) and Package manager = RPM.
+Maybe we should drop the "Update method" item,
+and put Package manager = urpmi, rpmdrake (RPM) ?
+
+-- 
+André
+
+