Re: [TCLUG:18863] Mandrake 7.1

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ben Lutgens wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:36:21PM -0500, Tim Neu wrote:
> >
> >I'm normally a Debian guy, but I have to admit I'm impressed... 
> >
> >You can select ReiserFS right from installation, and it comes with XFree86
> >4.0 right out of the box.  (installing 3.3.x is optional)
> 
> Sweet. But how control do you really have over the installation? i.e. do you
> get alot of shit you don't need/want? Is package selection as finely grained
> as a debian install? 

There are three install modes: Standard, Custom, and Expert.   If you
choose either custom or expert, then you can select individual packages if
you want to. 

> It's still rpm based right? Too bad. if it web .deb based I may consider it. I
> am just crazy about debian package management.

Me too.   But having a journaling filesystem available at install is
nice.   I also have to admit, Mandrake's installer is better than
debian's. 

> >Now, if we could just port apt-get to mandrake!  :-)
> 
> Never happen.

Hmmm...   This would not be impossible (technically)...   rpms may not
have all of the scripting available that .deb's do, but they probably
have enough...     

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