Yet another package manager
Kurt Wall
kwall
Thu Dec 23 19:53:22 PST 2004
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:39:02PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 36 lines to write:
; Matthew Carpenter wrote:
; >Then again, I've heard
; >something about package- versus file-based dependencies... I guess I
; >have a lot to learn yet. "And miles to go before I sleep..."
;
; I'm no expert on this subject by any means, so anything I say is open to
; correction ...
;
; That out of the way, I'm convinced that DEB is superior to RPM for this
; very reason.
I think apt is everyting that we hoped RPM would be. Perhaps RPM is
getting closer. I quit using it some years ago.
[whither the missing dependency?]
Kurt
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