From: David Bolt on 2 Mar 2010 14:42 On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 19:21, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: > Darklight wrote: >> That's why i like linux there's always more than one way to do a thing. >> I don't have to do a web site search just put what i want in the >> smart package manager look up and job done. > > So instead of putting it in one program, you put it in another. :-D > > Just to be curious. Will it find stuff where you have not yet added the > repo? Looking that "The Complete User's Guide"[0], no. Its search abilities look to have a few extra features over zypper but they do seem to be pretty close, at least in that area. I've not had a good look at the rest of the manual so can't really compare it to zypper in any other way. [0] http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dczd6mjw_5ktc8hfhs Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M1 32b openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: Darklight on 3 Mar 2010 04:14
houghi wrote: > Darklight wrote: >> That's why i like linux there's always more than one way to do a thing. >> I don't have to do a web site search just put what i want in the >> smart package manager look up and job done. > > So instead of putting it in one program, you put it in another. :-D > > Just to be curious. Will it find stuff where you have not yet added the > repo? > > houghi I doubt it, but i would say give it a try and come back and give us your feed back. If you do try it do a manual up date. |