[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Thompson Freeman]

On 08/23/2007 07:39:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:38:14 pm Michael B. Trausch
> wrote:
> > I did think that it was a very interesting read, though.
> ?I have to
> > wonder what he sees in an RPM-based distribution,
> because from my
> > experience they require quite a bit more hands-on,
> low-level maintenance
> > than Debian based systems do (at least the package
> manager does).
> 
> yeah, like trying to install a package from source, so the
> DB doesn't know it
> is installed.. so I use checkinstall. How does ubuntu
> handle that type
> situation?


As I recall checkinstall handles .deb's also.