--On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]:Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps?only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are really functionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post).
I've never felt RPM was as good as DEB. RPM-based distros just don't seem to be as maintainable over the long haul.
Personally, I have issues with a binary-based distribution. I am enamored of the *BSD ports system and buildworld. :-)