[SWLUG] Linux Distros and/or FreeBSD

[Steve Hill]

On Wed, 16 May 2007, Justin Mitchell wrote:

> apt-rpm existed back in the rh8 and rh9 days, apt being just a frontend
> anyway someone ported it to use rpm as its backend, the likes of
> freshrpms.net had apt enabled repos.

I stopped trusting apt-get after it automatically "fixed" my RPM 
dependencies by uninstalling every RPM on my machine... (this was back in 
the RH9 days).  Yum, however, does a pretty good job these days and I much 
prefer it to Aptitude.

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