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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:59, Dave Lee wrote:
> older machines, I wont learned my lesson and will go with a binary distro,
> in the future, tho I hate rpm and apt isnt that much better.
clarification:
rpm and apt are not even the same sort of software. rpm is a package file
format and system, apt is a distribution and package selection mechanism. apt
even works with rpm these days.
rpm and dpkg are the same type of software/standard, though not necessarily of
the same caliber.
apt and urpmi and the same type of software, though not necessarily of the
same caliber.
more specifically, there isn't much wrong with rpm or dpkg themselves. with
tools like apt and urpmi you can get quite efficient and useful systems that
are a snap to keep in shape.
the trick is picking a distribution that creates good packages. rpm has gotten
a bad name for two reasons:
o dependency resolution used to be a manual task. urpmi, yast, red hat
network, ximian red carpet and probably a few others have tackled that
problem to various degrees.
o distros that put out poorly made/make packages (this inludes compile
options and dependency choices). since most distros used rpm, guess which
package format gets the bad name for their stupidity?
also remember that you CAN compile from source into binary packages yourself
using things such as srpms.
nothing is perfect in every single possible scenario, but a decent package
format (e.g. rpm) with a decent automation tool (e.g. urpmi or apt) using
packages sensibly assembled and well tested makes managing software on linux
second to no other platform i've ever had the pleasure or curse of using.
=)
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