Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

[Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl>]

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Roberto � wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:04:09PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>> The same can be said about package managers.  While we all most likely
>> agree that apt is a superior package manager, there are those that think
>> RPM is by far better, and others that think the only real way to run a
>> GNU/Linux system is to compile everything yourself.  We can't all be right.
>>
> To nitpick, rpm is on the same level as dpkg.  They are only package
> managers on the lowest level.  As in, they let you install directly from
> a file on disk, list the contents of packages, and so on.
> 
> At least, generally when people talk about package managers, they
> usually mean something like synaptic, aptitude or even apt-get.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 

Right you are.  I mean yum or up2date, or whatever other higher level
commands that Red Hat and their offshoots are using.  I know of at least
one RPM based distro using apt-get.

Joe
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