On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:59:29PM +0100, James Green wrote:
Cool. Y'know, I've been waiting for the new Debian (2.2?) to come out before switching from RH6, but since this seems still miles off, I just
2.1r3 will hopefully be out soon. I wonder if it will appear in time for CDs for ALUG 3? Or maybe Slackware 5, but that's hopeful.
Debian 2.2 is looking to be still three months away.
My only problem with Debian is that the .deb packages seem a great deal less in distribution/access than .rpms. Go to a software website, you can more likely download .tar.gz and .rpms, but never .debs.
That's because there are more debs in the distribution tree, which has the advantage of being audited more carefully, inside their extensive bugtracking system and probably available from a site close to you.
RPMs are fickedly wucked, as nearly all dependencies are broken on contributed packages.
together and build a GNU package manager for all distros. It's the one area where Linux is totally beaten be Windows :(
!!! Windows currently has *no* package management, hence the proliferation of InstallShield and similar tools.
MJR
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