Mandriva 2008.1 Package Manager
Mandriva Spring 2008.1 is no doubt a great distribution. It has good collection of default software, has excellent hardware detection, has proprietary drivers and software and an overall great out of box experience.
People, including me, often complain about its Package manager. With 2008.1, Mandriva has greatly improved RPMDrake. Its fast, has good number of packages and beautifully handles dependencies.
Lets have a little detailed look.
We start it with the nifty "Install and Remove Software".
It first opens to a welcome screen and confirms if we want to use the tool, want to add media source, if update only or full sources,
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