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I had the same experience as the OP in the beginning of the century. I've built a lot of RPM packages back then and it was clear that system of dependencies bui

I had the same experience as the OP in the beginning of the century. I've built a lot of RPM packages back then and it was clear that system of dependencies built into RPM format itself (not apt or dnf, this is dpkg level in terms of Debian) was poorly thought out and clearly insufficient for any complex system. I've also migrated to Debian and it felt like a huge step forward. I'm on Arch now, BTW.

LeFantome 1y ago
The equivalent of RPM on Debian is the .deb package format. The equivalent of apt is dbf (or yum before it or up2date before that). Red Hat is just old enough to exist before package managers existed on Linux. It was not there at first on Debian either. Slackware still has not package manager really.