>In vogue?  Uhh, ok.  I thought the current trend was to trash deb for 
their
>long release cycles.

Blah.

>1) the package management sucks.  Big time.  What's with putting the rev 
in the
>package name? 

"rpm --force" u don't need that crap to install other crap if you don't 
use that functionality. I am of the opinion if you need granular install 
use source if you don't (and want ALL functionality) use the rpm's w/ deps 
followed. apt fixes these nightmares and also is often overlooked for its 
ability to update things automagically too.


>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.

force the install it'll go and work (hopefully) unless its a nobrainer 
like not having openssl* and installing openssh* or apache w/ mod_ssl.


>Its a very unprofessional setup.  I'd rather use Sun's package 
management.

I disagree on how its "unprofessional" as for the enterprise package 
management they use srpms <see above about source installs>...
and as for sun's pkgtools me too! ;-)



-Scott