So you've never had to edit a broken maintainer script under /var/lib/dpkg/info/* from bad post/pre install / removal bits? I've used both extensively on somewh

So you've never had to edit a broken maintainer script under /var/lib/dpkg/info/* from bad post/pre install / removal bits? I've used both extensively on somewhere around 30k machines over my career and have to say I see rpm make a mess impossible to fix with just rpm 0 times. I most definitely can not say the same for Debian / Ubuntu systems. I think yum wins in that it has real plugins, not quasi plugins. There is a sort of debdelta-upgrade command, where as yum deltarpm is part of yum natively (you don't have to know about it to use it). The same can be said for the fastest mirror plugin, where yum will ping several mirrors and choose the fastest one for you. I can go on and on, but the moral of the story is that in 2015, from a technical standpoint, yum simply beats apt-get. Bonus points that you have things like rpm -V and rpm -qf (which dpkg -S don't really replicate much at all).