The replacement of dpkg with apt is a change for the better. The level of
interactiveness I experienced in installing
Debian 2.1 (Slink) is also much better than it was in Debian 2.0 (Hamm).....I have
installed both, and I have felt this
first-hand. One thing I like about Debian is that it forces the user to resolve any
dependency errors that may surface
while choosing packages to install. It forces you to learn about dependencies,
although the way it uses to do that is
not exactly newbie-friendly.
--Indra
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> From: SWAPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [[ilug-cal] Disgributions...]
> Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:16 PM
> 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.
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