On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 06:48, Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > At the risk of starting a huge religious war:
<snip> > 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir > > In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration file > is under here. In Debian, anything goes. eh, I think this just what you get used to. Every time I get on a RH-based machine and need to change a conf file, I get terribly lost. > 3. RPM vs DPKG query subsystem. > > No, not yum vs. apt-get or aptitude or aptsomethingelse. To find information > with dpkg seems difficult and unwieldy. Example: Say you want to find what > package a specific file belongs to. With dpkg you should a dpkg-query -s to > search the cache. I don't like that. I just want to know what package a > given file on the filesystem belongs to. rpm -qf $FILE, done. I use dpkg -S for that, personally; and dpkg -L to list the files that belong to a package. AFAIK, dpkg can do just about anything dpkg-query and dpkg-deb can do (it acts as a frontend to those commands). Anyway, I don't see that much difference between dpkg -S, dpkg-query -S, and rpm -qf. > The query > system is general in rpm is simple yet robust. dpkg-query just doesn't do it > for me. And I also don't like how there are a bunch of dpkg-* files that > split up various functions of the dpkg system. I admit I haven't used rpm much at all, but dpkg has always done what I needed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
