On so, 2002-06-22 at 18:17, Toby Inkster wrote:
| only on Ximian supported platforms... i laugh at people who have alot
| dependancy problems installing any package including pan/pan-cvs, its
| non-exisistant on debian :) no more --force --nodeps.
RPM, as a packaging format has no significant advantages or disadvantages over
DEB (except that RPMs are in general more widely available and that RPM has
been adopted as the standard packaging format for the LSB).
As far as the packiaging software is concerned, of course "apt-get" is more advanced than "rpm"... but you
shouldn't try to compare them. Instead compare "dpkg" with "rpm" and you'll see that "rpm" compares
favourably.
Compare "apt-get" with "apt-rpm" or Mandrake's "urpmi" and you'll see that RPM
is not as behind as a lot of people claim.
And now, compare it to BSD Ports Collection and "portupgrade". Far
superior. No more stupid -devel packages you always forget to install.
We, FreeBSD people are laughing on Linux crowd :))
I heard Gentoo have something similar.
... now if only someone update pan port to 0.12.0 ...