On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I think that's when the Fedora packing guys brought the build systems online. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
