Re: [Pan-users] Upgrading to Pan v0.12.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.1 issues

[mdew]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 04:17, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2002 01:51:00 +1200
> mdew <address@hidden> 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.

you need to re-look at,
http://www.distrowatch.com/article-rpm.php

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