On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand <mich...@elehack.net>wrote:
That depends entirely on who you ask. Here, you are likely to get > pro-RPM answers, as Fedora uses RPM and people choose it for a reason. > Each has features and niceties that the other does not. Both are good > package formats and systems; they just have different opinions about how > the world works. > > RPM maintains data for verification of installed software. That has > saved me on at least one occasion. > > DEB has the concept of optional dependencies, which can offer you > greater flexibility in managing what software is installed on your > system. That is probably the biggest Debian/Ubuntu package management > feature I miss since switching to Fedora. > > If you're going to build packages, they're mostly just different. Both > are pretty easy to do once you know what's going on; I find RPM slightly > easier, but Debian provides lots of nice helper scripts for package > builds (and those are inherited by Ubuntu). > > Pick one. You won't really go wrong. In my opinion, software > availability, quality, and maintenance culture are more important > factors for picking a Linux distribution than package manager, unless > you have prior package manager knowledge you're looking to carry with > you. From those perspectives, I have selected Fedora (after using > Debian and Ubuntu for quite some time), but YMMV. For whatever reason(s) (which actually I also don't understand at this stage), I have decided to go with the .rpm side of Linux. As you say both are great, so yes, anyone I choose, I win! -- THX
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