On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:05:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:11, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:43:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:52:35PM -0500, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > > I don't think people should get paranoid about Red Hat as if it were > > > > competing with Debian for some critical resource. > > > > > > Mostly for two reasons: > > > > > > 1) apt-rpm is a piece of shit compared to apt-get due to RPM > > > stupidity. > > Aehm the only difference I can find from user standpoint is that > > apt-rpm is slower cause auf the rpmlib. > > Does it also have Packages.gz? I.e., the functionality of apt-cache? There are still bugs in this port but in generall it's useable. synaptic works, a bunch of apt-* tools are ported and apt-rpm itself has a few special features like the phyton bindings, lua scripting support and the apt-shell.
IMHO the lousy "but my debian has apt-get install" argumentation is out of date for quite some time. ==================================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] sven]$ apt-cache search ^apt* [...] apt-listchanges - Display new changelog entries from RPM packages apticron - apticron upgrade notify tool apt - Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support apt-devel - Development files and documentation for APT's libapt-pkg apt4rpm - Create an APT repository [EMAIL PROTECTED] sven]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) ==================================================================== without further comments :) Sven -- http://www.comboguano.de http://sven.linux-ist-pleite.de I'm root, if you see me laughing you better have a backup! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
