[geeks] Alpha check

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 17 May 2001 23:19:31 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:42:46PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I recommend debian.  I use both redhat and debian on intel, and am
> > reasonably happy with both.
> 
> Is it something I've broken, or does Debian not include ldd?  Oh, and
> due to the packaging system being so much more comprehensive than (eg)
> Deadrat's, it can be trickier to upgrade your kernel.  Which is kinda

Erm, no, it's not "so much more comprehensive" than Red Hat's, from
everything that I've been able to figure out.  I know the
user/administrator side of RPM inside and out.  I'm getting into dpkg,
but it has some rather large gaps in functionality.  From chatting with
the people I know who hack frontends for both RPM and dpkg, dpkg seems
to have the right concepts, but they completely fubar the
implementation.  RPM, on the other hand, doesn't have the concepts quite
right, but their implementation is far superior.
Got any specifics as to what you think dpkg/apt can do better than
rpm/up2date ?
    Greg

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