On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Overall the big win with ubuntu is that they've managed to get most of the >>>> packages you are likely to ever want into a set of pre-configured >>>> repositories that are generally consistent with each other. With RPM based >>>> systems you'll end up having to track down an assortment of 3rd party >>>> repositories that are not consistent so you'll end up with install conflicts >>>> or having to maintain different applications on different machines to >>>> isolate them. >>> >>> This is in my view the deal breaker in an enterprise setting. >>> >>> ~af >> >> And also has nothing to do with RPM itself. > > Ultimately not. RPM is just a tool that goes out to get packages from > a predefined > location. Whether it finds or not what is looking for... that's another store. You must mean yum. > Let's just say that Ubuntu tries to ease the pain. More package maintainers, laxer packing rules. That's all. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
