[plug] Red Hat package management

[Cameron Patrick]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:33:57PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| There's a common misunderstanding there. RPM has nothing to do with APT 
| really - it's /dpkg/ it should be being compared to. The issue has been 
| the total lack of any equivalent of apt on many RPM-based distros, 
| causing people to think that RPM is the problem. It isn't - just try 
| using a Debian system without apt.

You're right, but I'd like to point out that even the much-maligned
dselect took care of dependencies for you.  Debian has had that since
the year dot.  It seems like such an obvious feature that it's
surprising that Red Hat is only just catching up.

Cameron.


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