Best distribution wrt pkg management

2003-01-08 Thread Chinmay Nadkarni
I have been on Redhat 7.2 for well over a year now, but I dont like the package management system (rpm) that redhat provides (Two words - dependency hell). I am thinking of trying some other distribution just for that. What are some of the other distributions to look out for ... I have seen

Re: Best distribution wrt pkg management

2003-01-08 Thread Cliff Wells
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:25, Chinmay Nadkarni wrote: I have been on Redhat 7.2 for well over a year now, but I dont like the package management system (rpm) that redhat provides (Two words - dependency hell). There are tools to help with this. I personally like apt-get, but you can also

Re: Best distribution wrt pkg management

2003-01-08 Thread CORNELY Nicolas
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 18:25, Chinmay Nadkarni wrote: I am thinking of trying some other distribution just for that. Try Slackware @ www.slackware.org! -- [ nicolas cornely - www.cornely.org ] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Best distribution wrt pkg management

2003-01-08 Thread Matthew Boeckman
*flame alert* IMHO, FreeBSD's Ports tree is the single most reliable package system available. It's awesome, it's flexible, it's easy. It's not Linux, but it's still great. Solaris has a nice package system also, far superior to RPM and APT I think, but who wants to run Solaris these days?

Re: Best distribution wrt pkg management

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Russo
Cliff Wells wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:25, Chinmay Nadkarni wrote: I have been on Redhat 7.2 for well over a year now, but I dont like the package management system (rpm) that redhat provides (Two words - dependency hell). You know, I first started using linux with Slackware, back when