On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:50 +0000, Ian Chapman wrote: > But I > must admit, I never really understood that viewpoint as yum has > basically eliminated "dependency hell" and wondered what was magically > different about deb. The reason for the confusion is that the supposed superiority of .DEBs wasn't just the software, but the strict packaging policies and testing of Debian, which historically were far more rigid than most distributions', no matter what package system they used. You can still see the difference today if you compare Ubuntu to Debian; generally speaking, Debian's packages in official releases still have far fewer problems. In my experience, Fedora packages fare reasonably well compared to Debian's, especially since the merge of the Core and Extras repositories. I would say that Debian has an edge over Fedora, but that may reflect the bias inherent in the fact that I've used Debian much longer than Fedora. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada web: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield blog: http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/
