Re: Fedora without RPM?

[Ingemar Nilsson <init@xxxxxx>]

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".

Regards
Ingemar