> I prefer Debian for any system that I am going to be maintaining over > time because the quality of the packaging has beat every other distro I > have used by a large margin. Please clearly define 'quality of packaging' were they the high grade nuclear electrons, as opposed to the coal produced electrons? > Yeah, they have had problems with installation, but you don't need to > install as often. I've had to do full reinstalls to upgrade most every > other distro (including SuSE 7.2-8.1, I was shocked by that one). Pardon? At worst, I've had to pop in a CD and go through upgrade mode, it's definitely not a reinstall. > apt4rpm comes close, but the consistency of rpm package dependencies > doesn't seem to be where the deb package dependencies are, and proper > dependency management is THE make-or-break proposition for a packaging > system. *Please* will someone explain this dependencies issue? People like to spout 'dependancy hell', 'dependency consistency' etc. without ever providing any meat. It's like a marketing buzzword. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list