there's a big difference between "doing dependencies" and actually doing a great job at it. Respectively, yum and apt.
I can hack together a bash script that will tell you that you need "x" package before you install "y" but that's far from a decent job. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Todd Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> > wrote: > > First and foremost, dependencies. > > yum does dependencies for rpm's. That's one of its big selling > points. What else do you know of? I know that debs have a > "suggested" value. And I know a deb can force some configuration > steps to occur during package installation, which rpm's won't do > without a ton of work. Other than that, what else? > > -- > Regards... Todd > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
