RPM Rant (was: Re: Evolution on RedHat 7.2)

gwtest plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:47:14 -0700


If you use up2date with redhat you can run #up2date package-name and it will download the package and dependencies.


> DEB is not better than RPM.  RPM is slightly better if you do a
> comparison of features.  DEB has a couple things that would not be hard
> to put into RPM.  All RedHat needs to do is integrate APT, or something
> equivalent to it in their distribution and the dependancy-hell issue
> will go away.  It's the fact that they haven't done it YET that is the
> problem.