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.
The problem is that freshrpms and livna are not Fedora repositories in
the sense that Fedora has either control and responsibility for them. In
fact, given the nature of some of their content, Fedora *can't* have
such control.
Yes, if you pick the wrong Ubuntu 3rd party repositories you can get the
same problems. The problem is that they are independent operations,
although I hear rumors that they are going to coordinate better,
whatever that means.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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