On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 08:18, Chris Thielen wrote:
> Just a bit more info regarding my distro of choice (Debian, of course):
>
> Debian's package & dependancy management system is indeed quite cool.
> However the true advantage is simply that Debian packagers make really
> good packages. You can basically 'apt-get install <package>' and expect
> everything to work, installed with a reasonable default configuration
> selected for you.
...
Just want to second that statement -- I use Mandrake (urpmi == apt), but
the same idea applies to any distro. What you're really choosing when
you choose a distro is a development community's ideals of software
configuration and package maintenance. The distro that's cool now is not
so cool when a year from now the maintainers have moved on and packages
are no longer updated frequently/properly. If the package tree isn't
maintained, the dependency-checker won't work, whether it's called
urpmi, ports, or apt.
If I was building a fresh server farm from scratch tomorrow, I'd
probably go with Debian. My workstations are going to stay Mandrake for
the foreseeable future though.
--
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--Olivier Fourdan
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