On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:48:15PM -0600, user list wrote: [snip] | The reasons I like [debian] are: | 1. apt-get [snip] | I'll note in passing that the first reason has lost some edge now that | RH 7.3 comes with apt-get and that there are ports to older RH releases. [snip]
Is apt-get on RH 7.3 actually usable? Not very long ago I had requirements for using a RH box, so I installed the apt-for-rpm rpm from http://freshrpms.net/apt/. The system was a P90 with 96MB RAM and 10GB disk. apt was absolutely worthless on that system for two reasons 1) RH 7.2 repositories had very few packages (that I needed) 2) The porters royally screwed up. 3) it's as out-dated as potato To expand on #2 -- I have a 486SX with 8MB RAM and 230MB hdd at home. It is running debian, and apt (both potato's and woody's) works just fine amidst the thrashing. The thrashing is wholly expected on such hardware. Since the RH 7.2 repositories were lacking I tried the rawhide ones. A good idea, right? Kinda like trying woody or sid when potato doesn't cut it. On that machine with 96MB RAM (a 1200% increase compared to the debian box!) apt-get dies with an out-of-memory error. The problem was that apt-for-rpm was trying to mmap() the Packages file and it couldn't. Why is that such a big deal? I couldn't do anything with apt if the rawhide repository was in my sources.list. #3 isn't such a big deal, but after being used to woody's apt, with Preferences and all, seeing that potato's apt is the best thing to hit RH since sliced bread ... well, you know what I mean. Debian still maintains a strong edge over RH even in the apt arena. Oh, BTW, I just checked the RH 7.3 package list on redhat.com, and apt isn't mentioned anywhere. -D -- If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:5-6 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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