[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[William Kenworthy]

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:37 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:02 +0800, Kai wrote:
> > Maybe I need to rephrase or explain a little further ?
> > 
...
> No it's the package MANAGER rather than the package - Yast, Yum, Smart,
> Synaptic etc use info in the packages to decide EXACTLY what to install

I agree - even debian use tools built on top of basic apt utilities to
do the job.  Same with rpm - up2date/yum/... and others just use rpm
underneath. 

Ive seen enough dead and misbehaving debian systems to know that they
are just as much trouble as rpm based ones.

BillK


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