[wellylug] Not everyone pleased with new Mandrake renaming/release schedule

[Brent Wood]

--- jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com>:
> 
> > Ummm, I have had much greater success with both YaST & urpmi/drakepkg
> > to install packages than with synaptic or apt-get. A couple of years ago
> > this might have been different, but that's my experience right now. I think
> > RPM is working much better than it used to. I can download an RPM, double 
> > click & install it, with all dependencies generally being picked up fine.
> > So why would I move?
> 
> I am a debian user who hasn't tried Mandrake or SuSE, so, some questions:
> 
>  - If I want to find a program to do something, I can type 'apt-cache search
> <something>' and generally find some suggestoins.  apt-cache will show me
> more
> details on the packages as well, and, because all this is cached, it's
> super-quick.  Do RPM distros have anything equivalent?  Or do you have to go
> hunting on google?