Fedora without RPM?
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 11:35:24 UTC 2007
on 10/31/2007 7:15 AM, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
>
>> Just so you know, though, unless you use something like yum or portage
>> or apt-get you will always be dealing with dependency problems. I would
>> also add that regardless of distribution any given program will have
>> pretty much the same dependencies.
>
> One mistake that many people do is that they compare rpm with apt,
> coming down on rpm for not automatically managing dependencies like apt
> while never even mentioning yum. They then conclude that Fedora sucks
> becuase it has such an archaic package management system that cannot
> even automatically download and install dependencies.
>
> For some reason, many people are completely unaware of yum, while
> heavily criticizing Fedora for its use of rpm and the allegedly
> accompanying "dependency hell".
Lovingly referred to as PEBKAC. ;-)
--
David
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