On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:28:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:58 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:59:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > [...] but does anyone know if the apt-get system in Ubuntu also > > > suffers from these problems, and if not why not? > > > > apt-get is also in Fedora (yum install apt), so is synaptic, both for a > > very long time. The dependency resolver cannot do much about conflicts and > > broken dependencies in the packages. The Smart Packager Manager (yum > > install smart) tries to find work-arounds, such as downgrades and > > automatic excludes, but it isn't bullet-proof either. > > The question wasn't whether one can use Apt in Fedora (I used to do it > before Yum came along) but whether the Ubunto repos are better organized > in order to avoid conflicts. Not that I've heard of. There are multiple dozen 3rd party extras repos for Debian and/or Ubuntu, each often maintained by a single individual, and it is doubtful that those people check their packages against the entire package universe. The base repositories contain more packages (there's a lot of old cruft included in the Debian package universe) than Fedora, so that gives less reason to search for additional repos elsewhere. And of course, Fedora does not offer/host a "non-free" repository, which it could control which regard to packaging policy compliance.
