Re: Best server distro...?

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Author: Carl Parrish
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Best server distro...?
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.


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