Fedora without RPM?

[David Boles]

on 10/31/2007 7:15 AM, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
> 
>> Just so you know, though, unless you use something like yum or portage 
>> or apt-get you will always be dealing with dependency problems. I would 
>> also add that regardless of distribution any given program will have 
>> pretty much the same dependencies.
> 
> One mistake that many people do is that they compare rpm with apt, 
> coming down on rpm for not automatically managing dependencies like apt 
> while never even mentioning yum. They then conclude that Fedora sucks 
> becuase it has such an archaic package management system that cannot 
> even automatically download and install dependencies.
> 
> For some reason, many people are completely unaware of yum, while 
> heavily criticizing Fedora for its use of rpm and the allegedly 
> accompanying "dependency hell".


Lovingly referred to as PEBKAC.  ;-)

-- 

  David


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