On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:19:14AM -0400, Chris Gray (cgray@nowonder.com) wrote: > Paul, > > > > > > It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's > > > stability, but our > > > ISP has a contractor who's opinion is "Red Hat's the best, > > > thats why they > > > are so popular." I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own > > > > It is my experience most people feel whatever they are familiar with is the > > best for situation. I don't think I know *that* much about debian. I do > > know .deb is worlds better than .rpm. When it comes to debian, you are > > talking to the choir. > > However, dpkg is worlds slower and takes up worlds more memory than rpm. ...and buys you much more in the bargain. Would you rather spend the extra few seconds loading the /var/lib/dpkg/status file or the hours resolving RPM dependencies? It's been suggested that apt be reworked to cache the status file to a database format for faster loading and access. Note that when processing multiple packages, dpkg loads the status file only once (apt-get, however, doesn't). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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