Red Carpet available for FC2 -- please try it out

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 07.15 08:34, Gordon Keehn wrote:
> D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
>> Try it out! You can always just uninstall it if you don't like it.
> 
> 
>   Of course the last time I tried that, the package (no names - I  
> don't want to start a flame war :-X ) left me with a dozen or so  
> doubly installed RPMs, which (thankfully) I was able to clean up with  
> synaptic.  But I'm sure you guys would NEVER let something like that  
> happen.

I used Red Carpet with RH 7 (or was it 8??).  It was _much_ better than  
up2date.  However, there was one rather serious problem, perhaps what's  
alluded to above?  Which was: Ximian had some of their own RPMs that  
replaced the RedHat RPMs.  These interfered with updating to the next  
version of RH.  The removal process was not painless, especially as it  
came at a particularly difficult point, upgrading to a new release.   
And RC was not supported at that point in the new release, so I  
couldn't go back, even if I had wanted to.

Bottom line, I would not go there again, especially as command-line yum  
works so well for me.