From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   marc wrote:   
   > Mike Easter wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Now I've had a look at Mageia's XFCE & its KDE mainly to explore its   
   >>>> persistence strategies and in doing so I found a serious weakness of   
   >>>> its   
   >>>> package manager; it isn't a 'full-blown' access to its repo/s.  Such as   
   >>>> the isodumper (for persistence) is NOT found in either DE but can be   
   >>>> added w/ the dnf function.   
   >>>   
   >>> Where does dnf get it from, if not from the repos?   
   >>   
   >> dnf gets it from the repos, but the graphical package manager in MCC   
   >> Mageia Control Center, ie RPMDrake doesn't show it.  Synaptic, for   
   >> example, does a good job of accessing the repo/s in my LM.   
   >>   
   >> Up thread there was some 'comparing' of Mageia's package manager vs   
   >> synaptic.   
   >>   
   >> Today I should get around to doing some Mageia live persistence w/ the   
   >> isodumper strategy.   
   >   
   > Isodumper (a tool for writing ISO images to a USB stick) is listed in   
   > the package manager of Mageia 9, in the Mageia Control Center MCC, also   
   > known as Rpmdrake, which is the Mageia package management tool.   
   >   
   > There's isodumper-gtk and isodumper-qt   
   >   
   > Current version is 1.56.1.mga9.   
   >   
   The story on the 'confusion' about MCC/rpmdrake has to do w/ the live vs   
   the installed or even the persistence condition.   
      
   Live doesn't show the package availability in the repo/s, just installed   
   in MCC/rpmdrake. There's more than one way to remedy that condition; and   
   persistence live, which is what I was going after, will also do it.   
      
   But at the 'outset', booting live and looking for isodumper won't find   
   it in the default live MCC/rpmdrake.   
      
   Personally, I don't think that is the 'best' default condition, and it   
   isn't 'conventionally' the case for other live distro/s whose default   
   package manager /does/ show the packages in the repo/s, not just installed.   
      
   In order to debate this issue, one has to boot the live .iso, not just   
   look at their current MCC/rpmdrake.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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