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[simon]

skribe (skribe at amber.com.au) wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:18, Richard Meyer wrote:
>
> > I haven't used Mandriva for a while, and when I did its urpmi tool was
> > perfectly satisfactory as was the SUSE YAST2 -
>
> I have both Mandriva and Debian machines and imho apt-get is much better than
> urpmi.  I've had apt-get mess me around only once and that was remedied with
> a reinstall of the package in question.  IIRC auto-reinstall isn't a feature
> of urpmi, it has to be done manually.  urpmi is a pain and I've had packages
> fail to make symlinks and worse for no reason other than it seemingly felt
> like it. The same package may or may not work perfectly fine the second,
> third or fourth time of an attempted install.  All that said, it is still
> head and shoulders above the old rpm style installations, which were
> dependency hell, but apt-get wins by the length of the straight.

Funny, Ive never had a problem. It just works.

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