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Date: 2002-11-28 18:20:48
From "Stefan"
Subject: Re: SMIT

> Yeah, for all the static I get from my Linux using friends about how
> weird AIX is, I've found it to be really straightforward, and SMIT is
> just one example of that. 
There are things like SMIT on Linux, e.g. Linuxconf or Webmin but 
somehow I don't find them as good... SMIT was...hmm...easier 
is not the right word, Webmin is easy too, but this web-based 
stuff is always so slow and Linuxconf has a strange structure at 
some points...
...I just like the way SMIT works. And the fact that in the end 
everything is done by calling external scripts/programs is really 
nice. It's not a tool hiding what it's doing but instead letting you 
know.
This of course requires appropriate command line tools for doing 
all configuration without having to manipulate configuration files 
by hand. Which again makes AIX straightforward (as you called it).

> I don't know what the point of having two 
> package managers on a system is, if one can't check the other for
> dependencies. If I have Perl installed through SMIT/installp, RPM will 
> never know about it.
I think it would only make sense if both shared the same database...
but I guess this is not possible because they're quite different.

> Does AIX 5.x use RPM exclusively? I'd guess not since Bull's site
> lists their .bff files as being for 4.3 or 5.1.
No, all the AIX-stuff from IBM comes as installp-packages. It's only 
the Linux-stuff IBM provides as part of the Linux-Toolbox that uses 
RPM (at least up to 5.1).


cu,
Stefan

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