Re: GNORPM: What the heck is going on?

["Albert F. Sommar" <albert-f-sommar att net>]

If the goal is a sorted list of installed packages, why not just use:

        rpm -qa | sort

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At 08:45 AM 4/6/2001, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> I want to use gnorpm to see an alphabetized list of all RPMs installed
> and delete the many,many,many unneeded ones thrown in my RedHat version
> 7.0. I want to see the list of all RPMS, and possibly the filespace they
> are using (as in xrpm).  I don't care what category the packager chose
> for his gift, because those always help in figuring out what I need and
> what I don't.
>
> So when gnorpm starts up, I see topical subdivisions of packages, and I
> figure, maybe, I can go to "preferences" and tell it to list all
> packages. When I go to preferences, then gnorpm goes online and starts
> downloading files from some redhat site, and it takes a while. Quite a
> few of the files it downloads obviously apply to things I don't have,
> like an Alpha system or powertools for old RedHat versions. After all
> that downloading, then the gnorpm tab for "distributions" lists a bunch
> of things like
>
> 6.1  Powertools Alpha
> 6.1  Powertools SRPMS
>
> //there are lots of these, none of which apply to RedHat 7.0, which I
> currently use.
>
> Can somebody give me a heads up on why all this functionality is being
> inserted into gnorpm? What is the point?  WHy won't it do what I want
> instead?
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