[ltp] "Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad"

[Grant Williamson]

both redhat & suse have frontends to install software, which for most 
users is adequate enough.
So don't see how rpm being a handful is relevant.

Richard Neill wrote:
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> 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