[olug] sparking a flame war.....

[Eric Penne]

Slackware didn't really stray from rpm.  RPM's kind of strayed from tgz. 
I like RPMs better than tgz.  My biggest beef with RPM and tgz was that
there wasn't really a nice automated way to download and install the
packages.  I always had to use wget to download and then find out the
dependencies and use wget to download them.  Then on the install I had to
make sure I installed them in the correct order.

I'm by no means proficient with RPMs.  I haven't used RH since 7's and
never used Mandrake.

On the Debian side,  I use Synaptic 0.36 for GUI and it is absolutely
wonderful.  I've never run into dependency problems.  I have run into
preconfiguration problems though.  For remote management it is nice to
type one command and the download and install is going.  I'm getting
better with debian package management and right now I want to get good
with one before going in and trying to learn another one.





> For those of you who complain about rpmhell.....
>
> I have only ran into rpmhell when
> #1 I did not know how to check dependancies ( e.g. dist. specific
> methods )
> #2 some idiot performed rpm -i --force pkgname.rpm using a package that
> did not belong on the distribution/version it was installed on.
>
>
> - IMHO - rpm is a very good packaging mechanism, and is _VERY_
> thoroughly defined and documented. -- why do you think lsb defines rpm
> as the official lsb packaging method? Dont get me wrong, I am in no way
> saying apt or portage or xyz is any worse, But when you have the
> majority of the dist. packagers using it already, it made sence. Face
> it, The only major dists to stray from rpm ( Just off the top of my head
> - may be missing some ):
> debian, gentoo, slackware
>
> dists that use rpm: ( some are defunct )
> redhat, suse, caldera(pre/post SCO), mandrake, TurboLinux, Conectiva,
> Lindows?
>
>
> just a bunch of ramble.....
>
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