[Gllug] What's so good about Debian?

[mimo]

Xander D Harkness wrote:

> Not to start a flame war - just an question to allow me to learn more 
> about apt and dpkg. (Though I am sure some interesting FWs have 
> started with a small question :-)
>
> What advantage does apt have in terms of dependancy resolution over 
> rpm --aid or apt, or yum or even up2date which supports RHN, apt and yum.

I have used RedHat (first) and Debian (now and for the rest of my life). 
One point with RH was when I tried to gradually upgrade my 6.2. First 
there were problems updating rpm itself because it wouldnt allow to 
install packages anymore. Then I couldn't update to glibc-2.1 (just a 
housenumber), finally found a complicated how-to and finally ended with 
broken libraries to libc (argh!). I mended it again but never managed to 
upgrade this way. So I decided to give debian a try. In terms of package 
management I started with frontend dselect and now aptitude - because 
it's nicer. One thing you can do with aptitude is simulate what you are 
going to install (which packages) - see what packages will need 
upgrading, which dependencies will break and so on and this in quite 
complex ways. Maybe you can do this in rpm too - I dont know. But can 
you also select/change the version of an installed package? I know 
people who run redhat but use apt for packages as you can convert deb to 
rpm (and the other way). Finally, I tried a libc upgrade and it just did 
it....

wanted to write a short message... now it's a testimony.

Michael

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