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Do rpm-based managers still work out the package dependences incorrectly, take a long time to download the headers, and generally break constantly? Honest ques
by carlesfe 14y ago
Do rpm-based managers still work out the package dependences incorrectly, take a long time to download the headers, and generally break constantly?
Honest question, I haven't used an RPM-based distro since a couple of years ago. Last was opensuse 11, then fedora 3.
rpm is a pretty great format, but the frontends are not very good. apt, on the other hand, rocks, and aptitude rocks even more.
- chalst 14y agoNote that both apt-get and aptitude, together with dpkg, are part of APT (advanced packaging tool), which is the suite of tools handling .deb packages. While I'm at it, neither apt-get nor aptitude are simply front ends to dpkg - both have fairly complex (and different) policies for how to handle dependency conflicts, etc, while dpkg makes you do everything by yourself. See http://superuser.com/questions/93437/aptitude-vs-apt-get-which-is-the-recommended-aka-the-right-tool-to-use http://superuser.com/questions/93437/aptitude-vs-apt-get-whi...