Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote:
>
> Yeah, I know, I work with youth and its quite a challenge. In their
> frequently expressed opinion everything sucks and there's no value in
> anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager?
> Also is there some kind of uninstall manager?
RedHat's rpm and Debian's dpkg command-line interfaces work quite
similarly. Debian has dselect which is a full screen interface, while Red
Had has something called glint which only works in X and is sort of lame.
both rpm and dpkg handle unstallation fine.
Debian has generally been better at dealing with dependencies and at
upgrading to newer versions.
Debian has a new tool called apt which currently only works from command
line or dselect, but works great. It will have a GUI interface
eventually.
(To be fair, I haven't used Red Hat since 4.2 and it may have improved
since then, but they severely mismanaged the conversion to glibc.)
When apt is fully functional, that should blow away everything else.
Bob
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