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On 1 Feb 2007, at 18:06, Steve Roome wrote:

>
> Everyone has only limited knowledge of Linux! I remember watching some
> fairly expereinced unix bods once trying to use fedora after getting
> to grips with SuSE. All their swearing could be heard the other side
> of the office anyway.


I class myself as a pretty experienced unix user, but still even I  
swear at redhat when trying to use it.  I guess I just don't know  
'the redhat way'.  On most unix systems there is some kind of package  
repositroy somewhere and a tool to get packages from it.  But  
whenever I use redhat I always end up having to hunt around sites all  
over the internet to find the RPMs to install.  Is there a way to  
configure rpm to just 'go grab what I ask and install it'?  Or is  
that not the job of rpm?  If so, what is?

-Matt (who hates being taken out of his FreeBSD pond)

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