Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates
Ed Cogburn wrote:
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> Howard Mann wrote:
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> > 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 ?
> >
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> The situation with python is handled as well. An attempt by you to
> upgrade python from 1.4 to 1.5, would trigger an error. In dselect, a
> screen would pop up and tell you what packages still depend on py 1.4
> (a dependency against "1.4 and above" would be ok), and would warn you
> to upgrade now would likely break these packages.
>
Shouldn't rpm have refused the python upgrade as well? I'm pretty sure
it understands dependencies and versions.
Perhaps this just confirms what I've noted before: the debs are
generally of better quality than the rpms. Maybe having an experienced
Debian maintainer for each package helps a lot.
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