[olug] sparking a flame war.....

[David Walker]

rpms have always worked well for me
I have been using portage for 2 days now on one machine and it seems very easy 
to use.  I am concerned though that I will be installing a lot of things I 
don't mean to when they show up as a dependency.

The "nice" thing about rpm hell is that you always know what packages you are 
installing on your machine because you are the one making the decision to 
install it.

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 01:33 am, Brian Roberson wrote:
> For those of you who complain about rpmhell.....
>
> I have only ran into rpmhell when
> #1 I did not know how to check dependancies ( e.g. dist. specific
> methods )
> #2 some idiot performed rpm -i --force pkgname.rpm using a package that
> did not belong on the distribution/version it was installed on.
>
>
> - IMHO - rpm is a very good packaging mechanism, and is _VERY_
> thoroughly defined and documented. -- why do you think lsb defines rpm
> as the official lsb packaging method? Dont get me wrong, I am in no way
> saying apt or portage or xyz is any worse, But when you have the
> majority of the dist. packagers using it already, it made sence. Face
> it, The only major dists to stray from rpm ( Just off the top of my head
> - may be missing some ):
> debian, gentoo, slackware
>
> dists that use rpm: ( some are defunct )
> redhat, suse, caldera(pre/post SCO), mandrake, TurboLinux, Conectiva,
> Lindows?
>
>
> just a bunch of ramble.....
>
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