Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 01:26 AM
First of all, doesn't Mandrake use RPM itself. And what about SuSE? RPM, isn't it?
Now, I don't think RPM is that good, but wrapped up by up2date, you barely need to care about resolving those dependencies. The only major worry is mixing RPMs from different sources where the dependencies may not be compatibly defined. As far as I know, this problem lies at the root of just about every package system for Linux, although I'd love to be corrected on that.
As for Mandrake, they don't seem serious enough in fixing longstanding bugs. Instead, it seems that they're always pushing users onto the next release.
Lesson #1, Mandrake: people who actually use their computers for work, as opposed to installing distro-of-the-week and acting "133T", stick with stuff that already works. And that means that you have to keep supporting your stuff for at least a few months before losing interest.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 01:26 AMNow, I don't think RPM is that good, but wrapped up by up2date, you barely need to care about resolving those dependencies. The only major worry is mixing RPMs from different sources where the dependencies may not be compatibly defined. As far as I know, this problem lies at the root of just about every package system for Linux, although I'd love to be corrected on that.
As for Mandrake, they don't seem serious enough in fixing longstanding bugs. Instead, it seems that they're always pushing users onto the next release.
Lesson #1, Mandrake: people who actually use their computers for work, as opposed to installing distro-of-the-week and acting "133T", stick with stuff that already works. And that means that you have to keep supporting your stuff for at least a few months before losing interest.
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