[Gllug] Debian or Fedora

[Richard Turner]

> until very recent incantations of rpm systems, and the limited help of
stuff
> like urpmi or apt-rpm i have always found there is too much manual
donkey work
> associated with installing binary rpms. debian's pool and distro
system really
> does have the right idea, if fedora uses debs then there is hope for
them yet.
> 

Fedora doesn't use debs - what gave you that impression?  Fedora's still
managed by Red Hat and will be used as the basis for their corporate
offerings - they're hardly likely to suddenly decide to drop RPM are
they?

Of course, you're right about the drudgery involved, but that's because
until recently there's been nothing in the way of dependency resolution
for RPMs.  This is beginning to change now, thankfully.  Apt on an
RPM-based system is a joy!

Richard.

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