Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Monday, Nov 12th 2007 at 11:14 -0000, quoth Neil Joseph Schelly: > > =>On Monday 12 November 2007 10:50, Steven W. Orr wrote: > =>> This disturbs me. I hear great things about Ubuntu, but AFAICT, Fedora is > =>> the best and most cutting edge distro AND it's RPM based. I'm sorry, but > =>> I have no desire to move to a deb based system. > =>> > =>> If I was to contemplate a different distro, is there anything that is RPM > =>> based that people can say better things about? > => > =>Why is RPM or DEB a determining factor? If you have a distro you like, > then > =>you use it. If you're looking for another one, then you're already looking > =>to change the respositories and the filesystem layouts and daemons and > other > =>nuances that differentiate one distro from another. I guess if you're in > the > =>market for a new distro already, why eliminate DEB-based ones? > > The simple answer is that I highly prefer rpm over debian. The access is > far simpler. Full use of deb files implies about 13 different packages be > loaded just to do deb things. I'm in a situation right now where I have to > create .deb files and, while I'm getting my job done, I can tell you there > is no book that you can buy to teach you all you need to know about the > hundreds of places where documentation exists on how it all works > together. > > I'm living with it and I have a few things I know how to do, but compared > to RPM and the available docs for it, deb files suck big green donkey > dicks. > > This is not a question of liking what you're familiar with. All of us know > the difference between learning from man pages and having a proper source > for learning idiomatic usage. > Sounds like you're in a good position to put together that document ;).
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