Debian vs Red Hat for updates

["Howard Mann" <archiver@db.geocrawler.com>]

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Hi,

I would like to solicit opinions concerning 
updates in Debian (.deb) vs Red Hat (.rpm).

Pewrmit me an anecdote. I recently wanted to 
install SGML tools, v 2.x. Using an RPM package, 
this failed because of unmet "dependencies."

The version I was trying to install required a 
version of GLIBC 2.0 that I do not have ( I use 
Red Hat 5.0 ) and Python 1.5 - I have Python 1.4. 
When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent 
apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated 
apps like "TLinker."

This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade 
process in Debian - using apt-get I presume -
generally easier ?

I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/
upgrades is simpler and more reliable.

I'd appreciate any general comments.

Thanks,

Howard Mann.


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