[Gllug] Fedora and JPackage

[will]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:59:51AM +0100, will wrote:
> 
>>>This is one thing that RPM does NOT do for you. If a dependency is missing
>>>it just winges and dies. Debian's apt is infinitely superior in this
>>>respect. You can download a copy of yum or apt for an RPM based system.
>>
>>You *cannot* compare RPM and apt, they do not perform the same function! 
>>  Just as you cannot compare sendmail and courier-imap.  A valid 
>>comparison would be between RPM and DPKG as these actually fulfil 
>>equivalent roles.
> 
> To be fair, Will, he didn't compare rpm and apt; after all, he suggested
> adding apt to rpm, not replacing it.  If you look carefully, he also
> suggested yum, so I don't think this can be dismissed as Debian
> weeniness. 

Well, he said:

- RPM does not do this
- apt is superior

which seems to me like a comparison, but maybe the wording was ambiguous.

> He was entirely correct.  RPM doesn't do do that.  I don't think he
> should have to add a "dpkg also doesn't do this:" disclaimer.

Yes, he was correct, RPM does not resolve dependencies.  Possibly a 
better way of trying to say what he said would be:

'RPM does not solve dependencies, you need to use apt or yum to do this.'

Will.
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