yeah, I did. Its really not an individual tools thing, its a design philosophy thing. RH and its decendants are a collection of tools piled on a mishmash. No ground up core that binds everything together, and its really apparent. Its like using AIX (or SCO) vs using solaris. Carl Parrish spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > Mike Garfias wrote: > >In vogue? Uhh, ok. I thought the current trend was to trash deb for their > >long release cycles. > > > >1) the package management sucks. Big time. Whats with putting the rev in > >the > >package name? > > > >2) Package dependancies. The RPMs seem to be VERY coarse grained, > >package-zxy > >depends on package-abc, package-def, and package-ghi, even though -ghi is > >only > >perpherially related (ex: PHP depending on openldap being installed). I > >have > >to chain multiple commands to figure out what needs to be removed first, > >before I can remove a package. > > > >Its a very unprofessional setup. I'd rather use Sun's package management. > > Have you tried using yum and yumex? For me it doesn't get any eaiser. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss