[ltp] "Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad"

[Richard Neill]

Grant Williamson wrote:
> "The RPM package handling is a handfull for home users" - don't follow 
> please explain?
> 

Agreed - rpm on its own is a pain to use, since it doesn't automatically 
handle dependencies.
Eg "rpm -i PACKAGE" will probably fail, with a message about 
"dependencies", but won't help you resolve them.


It's still very useful eg:
   rpm -qa
   rpm -e --nodeps PACKAGE
   rpm -Va


However, Mandriva users have urpmi, and everyone can use
apt for rpm/synaptic
which solve the problem completely.

Richard