[wellylug] Not everyone pleased with new Mandrake renaming/release schedule

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:19:59 -0800 (PST), Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> Ummm, I have had much greater success with both YaST & urpmi/drakepkg to
> install packages than with synaptic or apt-get. A couple of years ago this
> might have been different, but that's my experience right now. I think RPM is
> working much better than it used to. I can download an RPM, double click &
> install it, with all dependencies generally being picked up fine. So why would
> I move?
> 

I have been using Debian on my main system for several years now, and
have never ever struck a dependency issue using apt-get.  Of course, I
stick with stable + backports on that system which might decrease the
potential for trouble.

I have had problems when I tried to downgrade a test system from mixed
stable/unstable to pure stable, but I can't imagine RPMs coping well
with downgrades either.

> Be grateful for the choices, Debian suits some, just not everyone :-)
> 

Right on.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')