Re: Red Hat user shopping around
On Thu, 9 May 2002, dman wrote:
> number is kinda part of the package name. The package name is as much
> as you specify, rather than having specific delimiters like dpkg. rpm
> also allows multiple packages with the same "name" (different version)
> installed, as long as no two files have the same name. It's a real
> PITA.
Which to this day is still (accurately) speculated as being one of the
reasons why I moved my school to Debian in '97. *Way* too easy to
completely mismanage a RPM based system simply due to inconsistancies in
package naming, numbering, and it's other counterintuitive perks...
> Someone has even ported apt to rpm. It has some problems though --
> it's potato's apt (no preferences) and it mmaps the Packages file. I
> tried using it (within the last few months) on a machine with 96MB
> RAM. It dies with an out-of-memory error. Potato's apt on my 8MB
> clunker _works_ even though it gets a sound thrashing in the process.
Good. New fodder in how Red Hat *can't* use our tools against us. 8:o)
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