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

[Jason Mollner]

According to the debian site, Lindows is based on debian.  Lindows does have
rpm support (debian does too), but according to the forums, people prefer to
use the .deb's.  I also tend not to use .rpm's on my debian system.

If you want to learn more about the 24 distros based on debian, go here:
http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
Personally, I've found Xandros and Libranet to be like running a stable
version of debian unstable (which is nice).

Also, apt-get tells you the dependencies that will be installed.  (someone
was worried about unknown dependencies getting installed)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Roberson" <roberson at olug.org>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:33 AM
Subject: [olug] sparking a flame war.....


> 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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