On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 07:39, Ron wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:18, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > [snip] > > - dpkg makes life easier than dealing with RPM. The dpkg isn't a > > complete bitch to deal with like RPM on the command line. You also have > > to make an effort to install two versions of the same package with dpkg, > > instead of it being the default behaviour like it is with RPM. > > I don't remember being able to easily install 2 versions of > the same package. > > > - apt makes life easier than dealing with... oh yeah, Red Hat doesn't > > have anything to resolve dependancies and download packages > > automatically. So apt is better than getting cozy with a bash prompt > > and rpmfind.net for a few hours. > > RH now has Red Carpet, which does something similar to apt-get, > but I think you must go only to redhat.com. No choosing the > fastest mirror. Not so. In fact, Red Carpet isn't part of Red Hat Linux, and you /can/ choose your mirror. It's a product from Ximian. The integrated update tool is called up2date, and /does/ automatically resolve dependencies. In fact, you can automatically resolve dependencies if you have the redhat-rpmdb package installed. RPM is a capable packaging system, with meta-packages, dependency resolution and all that good stuff. The real mystery is why Ximian are the only people who have chosen to leverage that. By the way, you can use Red Carpet on your Debian Woody system - it's package-manager agnostic. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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