> Has anyone here used Debian, and what are the thoughts? I need my
> package manager, and am so far only familiar with RPM. Are DEB packages
> just as easy to build/install/remove/etc?
>
dpkg as a CLI program is very good and I would say better than rpm but there
are not many frontends to it. I do not think 'dselect' merits discussion in
terms of user friendliness but I suppose if you use GUI frontends then
kpackage can handle both and it is very good at it. There is a package called
alien to convert from .rpm or .tgz to .deb packages. Note also that the init
scripts are quite different under the two. I would recomment wating for the
'potato' release or Corel distro to move over to Debian.
BTW does anybody know how to do a downgrade with rpm and dpkg packages. I.E
from python-1.5.2 --> python-1.5.1 or do I have to uninstall and reinstall the
old version.
HTH
-swaps
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