On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Viktor Vislobokov wrote: > Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > By the way, you can use apt with RedHat. See: > > > > http://apt.freshrpms.net > > > > for packages and more links. > > Thanks, I know. But I ask, "Why RH is not use APT?", > if APT is popular package managment tool and more flexible? There are some answers to this question buried somewhere in RH7-7.3 (+betas) mailing list archives, this discussion has taken place a few times before... Some of the things mentioned (if memory serves, that is) by folks from RH: - support (not wanting to support several upgrade methods etc) - dislike for C++ (or the way its used in apt) ..and some others I can't remember. > > If APT has serious defects, I want to see it. Please! >From what I've seen the worst problems with APT tend to be in dist-upgrades from one (RH) version to other, which largely seem to be because of some differences in the way it looks at dependencies compared to rpm itself. A recent example of this is when upgrading to RHL 8.0 with apt: libgnomeprint in 8.0 has a PreReq on itself (!!) and while RPM-4.1 happily upgrades/installs the package, apt complains and bails out (rightfully, IMHO) -- - Panu - _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
