[olug] Distros

[Adam Lassek]

In some ways, rpm being more popular at best doesn't really matter, at
worst could be incredibly bad depending on who maintains the package
tree. If the tree only contains official packages of that distro or
tree, then the fact that many other people make rpms available doesn't
make a difference to apt-get. If they allow just any old package into
the tree, it would probably break your system beyond compare with
circular or missing dependancies.

One of the reasons why I love debian, despite long waits for some things
(just now got kde3. But kde is pretty new to debian), is that it is
STABLE. Especially if you use the stable tree, it is going to work
better than most distros.

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 15:28, William Kempf wrote:
> >From: "Nate Rotschafer" <writetogenius at hotmail.com>
> >
> >I use debian and onlu debian now if I run linux...there are somes pros and 
> >cons:
> >
> >Pros:
> >1. anyone who has mucked with rpms will absolutely love apt-get...apt-get 
> >dist-upgrade and it updates an out of date packages on the system...apt-get 
> >install <package here> will install a package along with any 
> >dependencies...
> 
> A question on this.  I've seen apt-rpm which puts the apt front end on an 
> RPM back end.  Since RPMs are much more common (AFAIK) this seems like 
> (almost) the best of both worlds.  Anyone had any experience with using 
> apt-rpm care to comment on it?  Any good howto's available online for using 
> it?
> 
> >4. Setup and configuration is not the easiest to do...
> 
> That will probably leave it out of my own list of choices.
> 
> Bill Kempf
> williamkempf at hotmail.com
> 
> 
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