[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Jeff Lightner]

Again - yum does this for you.

I've run "yum update" on every system I've installed since FC4 without
having the issues you describe. 

So as you say about yours I'll say about yum "it just does it".

There are some things that aren't available from default Fedora
repositories due to their view of what "appropriate" for open source but
the same is true of Debian and Ubuntu - just different viewpoints as to
what should be included.   However there are other repositories you can
add to get those things if you want them.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:56 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

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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