On Thursday 28 November 2002 00:14, Stephen Pickering wrote: > >I _really_ do not want to start the deb. vs. rpm holy wars again, but > >I get so sick of hearing it from deb-heads. Why are debs so much > >better than rpms? Tell me what you can do on a Debian box that you > >can't do on a Mandrake box, package installation-wise. > > > >b. > > Gentoo ? > > I think the following is a good read: > > http://www.distrowatch.com/article-rpm.php
I really want to hear something why debs are better than rpms. But noone had show me the advances clear. The above article bashing a lot on rpm's but I've seen no arguments in there. Why should I could install rpms from SuSE on Mandrake and other way round ? Ok it might be good if I could do so, but where is there the argument for debs ? I can install debs safely on debian , thats it, but I can install mdk-rpms on mandrake mostly safely, so where is the argument ? I really want to hear: Is it easier to make good debs than making good rpms ? Is it easier to make debs at all ? Why is it easier ? What could be done to make it easier to make RPMs , or what does RPM lacks so that it isn't possible to make it easier ? Could there be made a GUI for making RPMs safely out of sources , fast and easy ? The only thing I thought a lot of times is, that I would love to see for Mandrake "Meta-packages" Don't know if this Idea was discussed before, but I think this would be usefull: urpmi meta kde ==> install the kde-selection that was in the install process present. urpmi meta developer ==> same for the developer selection I install mostly only a few things on a new install, if I need something I go and fetch it with urpmi. Maybe the "urpmf file => urpmi package"-process could be easily automated too ? The next thing is that these suggested ways in the article are only usable for high-bandwith-users. Has anyone tried apt-get dist upgrade with ISDN or modem ? Or anyone out there who tried install Gentoo with modem ? I don't think so .... Just my 2 cent. Greets Steffen
