[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Jeff Lightner]

What crap - yum works well for me.   If you haven't tried it in years
how can you say it doesn't work.  I've been using it since FC4 and
haven't found any major issues with it.

As noted it figures out the dependencies for you.  Trying to throw the
old "rpm dependency hell" argument out as a reason not to use rpm based
distros while ignoring yum is specious at best.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:58 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

Jeremy T. Bouse, on 08/23/2007 08:09 AM said:
> So you mean RPMs are no longer version dependent on the libgdbm ?
> And that they're intelligent enough to ask appropriate questions
> necessary to get a sane default configuration on install rather than
> just dump some standard default configuration. Yes they've add'd the
> feature to yum to be able to get dependency packages as well on
install
> but the format itself has not changed to the point I'd claim 'rpm
hell'
> is a thing of the past.

'yum', as best as I understand it, is a horrid hack on top of a
collection of hacks that is RPM.  I could be wrong, and if so, please
correct me---but a new utility in the toolbox won't fix the
architectural problems that have plagued RPM since at least 1996/1997
when I first had my hands on a Red Hat system.

I stuck with Slackware, and was turned off to the concept of package
managers for a long time until I picked up Ubuntu.  It makes me wish
that I'd tried Debian earlier.

	-- Mike

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