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Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot



On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:56:10 -0700
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:

[snip: about a reviewer's unfavorable comments about Debian]

>  I have to seriously question whether or not he knows what he's
>  talking about about RPM.  I've used RPM recently.  It's still painful
>  to use and terraparsecs behind apt-get *still*.  Even with urpmi.

Unless some people start a Debian-like project using rpm packages, the
terraparsecs are going to stay. Imagine the consequences of a Redhat
9.0 system you can rpm-get to version 12.0. RPM and an XGUI-based
installer is great for CD-installed systems.



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