On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 01:20, Scott <scot...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:47:13AM -0000, dbneeley wrote:
>
>
>>
>> I do agree that for most new users the Debian-based distributions tend to be
>> less of a problem than those still clinging to the RPM system. Although Red
>> Hat has claimed for a few years now that they are working on a replacement
>> for RPM that handles dependencies better, so far nothing has been
>> forthcoming.
>>
>
> Not arguing for or against Deb based vs. RH based. However, yum is,
> IMHO, probably comparable to apt as far as being a front end for rpm as
> apt is to dpkg. It handles dependencies, gives you ways to work around
> them, and has one nice featuer that may or may not be in apt, the
> "provides"--for example, if you try to build a package and get
> libwhatever.so.5-1/2 not found, you can run
>
> yum provides */libwhatever.so.5-1/2.
>
> It will then search its database, and come back whatever packages may
> provide this particular library.
>
> At any rate, at this time, I'd have to say that yum does do quite well
> at handling dependencies. Not perfect, it can have problems here and
> there, but of course, so can apt.
For those of us who no longer wear the Red Fedora, there is apt-file like so:
blade...@klaatu:~$ apt-file search /lib32/libdrm.so.2
ia32-libs: /lib32/libdrm.so.2
ia32-libs: /lib32/libdrm.so.2.4.0
Though you do have to install apt-file as it's not part of the default
apt tool set.
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