negative scores or typo? [LWN.net]

negative scores or typo?

Posted Sep 25, 2003 2:35 UTC (Thu) by diyab (guest, #3196)
Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment

I notice in the rating for the first three distros you have a colon and then the score. However the last two lack the colon but have a dash instead. So are the last two distros scoring negatively or is the colon/dash switch a typo?

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negative scores or typo?

Posted Sep 25, 2003 4:32 UTC (Thu) by ladislav (guest, #247) [Link]

A typo - sorry about that. The scale is from 1 to 10, as mentioned at the end of the Debian part.

...and URPMI does auto-dependencies...

Posted Oct 5, 2003 6:14 UTC (Sun) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

...this means that if you ask for mplayer's GUI, it will fetch the required command-line version (and whetever else) as well.

Also if there happened to be an update mplayer on the mirrors, you'd need to do a "urpmi.update nameofsourcehere" before you did the first urpmi command; this works kind of like apt-get update.