I spotted this on slashdot a while back.. (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/16/123252) This is an opinion piece offering solutions for all the ills of the RPM Package Manager. It has been written with Slashdot in mind - it is a fairly controversial topic and I would like to hear the experiences and views of other users who have tried different package formats and different Linux distributions. ofcourse, it is about RPM, but it has a few pointers for us, debian people, too (if you read bethween the lines). http://distrowatch.colug.net/article-rpm.php if you read it through, it will discuss the major defects of RPM and RPM based systems in general, although it's main focus is to seek for a better solution for packages, it mentions debian: 4.5 Switch to Debian Debian is a great project loved by its users and followers. Just to recap, the Debian package management system consists of several utilities, of which 'apt-get' is the best known; it allows for seamless updates of individual packages or for a system-wide upgrade of the entire distribution to a newer version. It resolves all dependencies automatically. ofcourse, that is just the good part. if focuses on some of the downsides of debian too, most of us know these already, but it's good to try and learn something of the feedback we are getting. Sami -- -< Sami Haahtinen >- -[ Is it still a bug, if we have learned to live with it? ]- -< 2209 3C53 D0FB 041C F7B1 F908 A9B6 F730 B83D 761C >-
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