[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Michael B. Trausch]

Geoffrey, on 08/23/2007 06:44 AM said:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 
>> I did think that it was a very interesting read, though.  I have to
>> wonder what he sees in an RPM-based distribution, because from my
>> experience they require quite a bit more hands-on, low-level maintenance
>> than Debian based systems do (at least the package manager does).
> 
> When was the last time you looked at an rpm distro?  'rpm hell' is a 
> thing of the past.
> 

The last time that I worked on an RPM distro was in late 2006.  A few
RPM packages were updated, and when the update manager was run, RPM
chugged away for about three hours, then failed saying "Dependencies
could not be met."

The very fact that it took /three hours/ to come to that conclusion
makes it a fail in my book.  RPM has been flawed since the first time I
used it, and needs a major rearchitecting if it is to come around.

The Debian package format "just works", though from a developer
perspective it is slightly more complex.  Worth the complexity, though,
since it works.

	-- Mike

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