[Gllug] 2.4.15

[Nick Mailer]

On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 16:20, David Damerell wrote:
> On Friday, 23 Nov 2001, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> >Apt is a great tool and it would IMO be good to see it available to more 
> >rpm-based distributions.  I don't think Red Hat have much of an 
> >incentive, though - it offers free competition to the Red Hat Network.  
> 
> It's a great tool relative to what the RH boys have, but it's pretty
> broken by Debian's standards; it was written with a fairly fundamental
> misunderstanding of how dpkg works.

Quite. Hence my question. The whole point about apt and dpkg is that
they work well together to resolve and automatically hold back/untangle
dependencies. Something I've never seen any RPM based system - even with
a front-end manager - cope with adequately.


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