Author: john lewis Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Xorg is hungry today...
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 03:08:00 +0100 (BST)
"Vic" <lug@???> wrote:
> Being the eternal optimist, I'm sure there will come a day when John
> will stop trolling with this one. But it is not this day.
I wasn't trolling, back in the days of RH 5.1 dependency problems were a
"feature" of RH as was the need to reinstall on version upgrades
Debian at that time did seem to have much better package management than
the other distros I tried before settling on Debian.
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> RedHat-based systems have excellent dependency control, as well you
> know. Trotting out this tired old line is just nonsense. Are you
> bored in your retirement, or something?
I don't know how good or bad other distros are at dealing with
package management since I haven't tried anything else since 2002 and
am unlikely to try, let alone move, to anything else. Not even a
Debian based system such as Ubuntu or Sidux.
I am an unashamed Debian user, though not a diehard as I use packages
from the non-free repositories. I will continue to advocate it, if
people think that boring I don't care.
