Hallo, eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx hat gesagt: // eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:50 , anahata <anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent: > >Initially yes. Once it's all working, Debian's the package management > >system is far more bullet proof than rpm. > > This is why Planet CCRMA uses apt-get for their RadHat distribution. apt != dpkg ! CCRMA uses apt to check dependencies or rpm packages, which still are a bit different from deb packages. debs have a stronger enforcement of dependencies, which is a love or hate thing, because managing all this can be very difficult for users. dpkg ensures that the system always is in a clean state, provided the packages were built correctly. The difficulties of handling debs lead to the development of apt, which just is a tool to resolve dependencies prior to package installation. (Try "apt-get -s install something") Regarding user friendly installation of Debian: I consider ease of installation an very overvalued factor. How often do you install a Linux system? This isn't Windows. I installed my main Debian system about six or seven or more years ago using Debian 1.2 and a pre-2.x kernel. This system has followed me over lots of harddisks, CPUs and mainboards and kernels, constantly upgraded with pure dpkg and later apt. Clean package management is much, much more important than ease of installation, and Debian simply has the most robust package management there is. (Maybe beaten by Gentoo, but I'd like to do other work besides compiling, too. ;) I'd strongly recommend Debian. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
