On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:29, David Neeley wrote: > There are a number of package/installation systems in Linux--perhaps > as we get true Linux Standard Base-compliant we can settle those down > a great deal! I have also heard good things about yum (making up for > some of the rpm deficiencies); yast keeps getting better; of course > Debian led the way with apt/dpkg; and others such as portage are also > supposed to be excellent.
I am sorry for the out of topic here. Note that it is unfair to compare rpm with apt/dpkg. Actually I used to manage rpms with apt. Referring only to debian and fedora here as the same applies to other distributions we are dealing on three levels here: package - rpm or deb package manager - yum or apt distribution - fedora or debian We need to distribution level to define common policies that make it easy to interoperate between different packages. That is what is taking time to define in Extras and it succeeded so that now Core is following the policies established in Extras. What people refer as the "rpm hell" was the absence of a policy so that packages could interoperate. It is not enough to have a tongue, we need to speak the same language so that communication happens. ;-) -- José Abílio
