[olug] Distros

[Nate Rotschafer]

>A question on this.  I've seen apt-rpm which puts the apt front end on an 
>RPM back end.  Since RPMs are much more common (AFAIK) this seems like 
>(almost) the best of both worlds.  Anyone had any experience with using 
>apt-rpm care to comment on it?  Any good howto's available online for using 
>it?

That doesn't end the problem of rpms...dependency hell...and circle 
dependecies sometimes....

>>4. Setup and configuration is not the easiest to do...
>
>That will probably leave it out of my own list of choices.

It is not any more complicated than the rest underneath the other ones just 
don't make you know what to do to make stuff work....they kinda take the 
windows way out imho...

Nate

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