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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Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems.  It's easy to
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