[Gllug] Fedora Core 14

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Feb 6 14:23:34 UTC 2012


On Friday, 3 Feb 2012, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>A long time ago I was on Redhat, but ran into "update headaches"
>around dependencies.
>I now use debian and ubuntu mostly, and I have never had "update
>headaches" with them.
>Is the debian package manager just better than redhat's, or was I just
>unlucky with Redhat?

That kind of problem tends to be caused by bogus package metadata (the
information which says what package A depends on, conflicts with, etc)
not by the package manager per se.

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