[Gllug] rpms is there an easier way?

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Mon 17 Jun, itsbruce at uklinux.net made the following spurious claims:

> On the contrary, the Debian project is maintained by a huge volunteer
> base with many package suppliers.  What does help is the packaging
> policy, which package maintainers stick to if only because the
> alternative is having the rest of the maintainers and a huge pack of
> flame-warrior hangers-on filling your mailbox with abuse.

The biggest advantage of Debian is that policy violations are
considered serious bugs!  That, along with the centralised bug
database, make for a coherent system.

> apt is the application that makes the big difference, yes.  up2date isn't in
> the same class, since for a start it is designed to work only with Red
> Hat's own central repositories and they haven't released the code for
> the server side of it.  Mandrake's urpm is closer.

People seem to think apt is a panacea, but until the apt points to
coherent, well-integrated repositories of packages, you're still just
as likely to get circular dependencies and have to manually fix weird
dependencies from third-party packagers.

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