jonathan d p ferguson wrote: > I'll break off my argument here, just before it turns into a > proselyting bit for The One True Debian Way :D
I'll pick up your thread. So, why were dependencies done so much better in Debian? My impression is that there was an economic bias. Back then, RedHat made their money selling CDROMS, so their incentive was to prepare a big X.Y upgrade and sell the disks. Debian didn't care about selling anything, so they could support continuous incremental upgrades over the network (which was a huge improvement over RedHat). This difference got baked in, and these roots still shade the character and release disciplines of the two distributions. I'll let someone else carry the story to Ubuntu. -- Anthony Carrico
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