On Wed, 11 May 2005 11:22:19 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RPM is comparable to dpkg and not apt. up2date, yum and APT4RPM has > been available to resolve dependencies automatically for quite a long > time The only issue a Fedora user might face here (and this one is getting better too) is thet there are lots of small repositories for Fedora/RH that aren't necessarily compatible with each other. In my short experience with Ubuntu, I found it easier to grab the packages I consider essential for my work with Ubuntu than with Fedora Core. This is probably mainly because Debian's been doing the repository thing longer than Red Hat, and they just have more software packaged up and ready to go ... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
