Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?
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Les Mikesell 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.
Try to find something that isn't included in the standard repository.
With fedora, you won't even find the names of additional repositories
documented, so you ask here. You'll get several different answers and
if you are looking for Sun Java, none of them will apply. For anything
else, like vlc or the Nvidia driver, you add all the recommended repos
and tell yum to install something and you'll get rpm conflicts. With
ubuntu, you enable the pre-configured extra repositories, pick what you
want and you are ready to run it.
So it seems it's more about packaging strategy and what distros offer,
rather than debs necessarily being inherently superior to rpm. I can
understand what you've said in the context of Fedora and Ubuntu but Suse
offers much of the same "non-free" stuff. Maybe Mandriva too I can't
remember. I'd always assumed they were referring to the days when you
tried to install program1.rpm which then said it needed libfoo.rpm,
which in turn needed libbar.so.1 which you had to figure how which rpm
it was in and so on, which is why I thought that viewpoint seemed outdated.
--
Ian Chapman.
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