[SLL] Sun Now Leaning Towards Ubuntu...

[Brian Hatch]

On or about 2008-04-04 08:10 -0700, Mark Foster wrote:

> >Because these days the underlying packaging system really doesn't matter
> >much.  It's the tools on top of them that you care about, and guess
> >what, you get apt on rpm systems too (no yum for deb though, pitty).
> >  
> Does anyone actually do this (run apt on rpm system)?
> Sounds like trouble to me.

Speaking as someone who prefers apt and dpkg, if I am
on an rpm-based system, there's absolutely no chance
I'd try using anything but yum, reverting to /usr/bin/rpm
only to install yum....

There are features in RPMs not available in DEBs and
vice versa, however a package maintainer should be well
versed enough in their own tool to be able to do the job
equally well as the other guy.




-- 
Brian Hatch                  Entropy isn't what
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