On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:42:08 EDT
> Rich Payne said:
>
> >If you like this idea then by all means go look into FreeBSD (the others
> >BSDs may do it that way as well...don't know).
> >
> >There a couple of problems i have with this:
> >
> >1) Time... rpm -i XFree86-4.0.1.rpm need I say more.
> >
> >2) Not everybody has all the devel rpms installed. Now you need lots of
> >other packages (that you have to compile).
> >
> >3) RPM isn't very well suited to #2. the debian system does do much better
> >(IMHO).
> >
> >4) It's not very user friendly...now, this is Linux so there's nothing
> >stopping you from doing it this way. You have all the SRPM files....
>
> Well, I didn't say it was perfect :) Nor did I say my methodology was very
> fine tuned :)
>
> So far I'm quite suitably impressed with Debian :)
I'v actually moved our external mirror server (dual 500MHz Alpha) over to
Debian (woody no less) and have been very impressed. apt-get is great. I
liked it all so much I burned the potato disks and know have a machine at
home with it on. You really start to notice the problems with RPM.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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