On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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!
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