Re: Debian Vs RedHat
On Thursday 10 January 2002 19:21, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> --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. :-)
An aquaintance of mine used gentoo and showed me that style of
build system. Very cool indeed. Which is why I was thrilled to
find:
apt-get --compile source package_name
You may not be able to build a complete source based system with
it but it sure is cool.
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