Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 29, 2005 11:00 PM
Ok, here's the original post:
I used Mandrake for years and it used to be just RH recompiled for Pentiums. I loved the URPMI tool that took care of dependency's for you but it was still a workaround of a packaging system that is broken.
I have moved to Ubuntu which uses the Debian packaging system that has dependecy resolution built-in. I mostly use the Synaptic tool but that is a just a GUI front end, not an add-on tool that tries to workaround a broken system.
Where is the comparison of apt with rpm? Your nitpicking is off-base. I've come to the same general conclusion as the original poster: Debian-based distros are stabler and easier to manage than RH-based ones.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 29, 2005 11:00 PMI used Mandrake for years and it used to be just RH recompiled for Pentiums. I loved the URPMI tool that took care of dependency's for you but it was still a workaround of a packaging system that is broken.
I have moved to Ubuntu which uses the Debian packaging system that has dependecy resolution built-in. I mostly use the Synaptic tool but that is a just a GUI front end, not an add-on tool that tries to workaround a broken system.
Where is the comparison of apt with rpm? Your nitpicking is off-base. I've come to the same general conclusion as the original poster: Debian-based distros are stabler and easier to manage than RH-based ones.
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