Re: [Hampshire] Xorg is hungry today...

2009/10/5 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:30:22PM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:11:09 +0100
>> Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
>> >
>> > Nor have I. Then it was about three years ago that I started using
>> > Debian :-)
>>
>> nor have I, but then I stopped using rpm based systems when I dumped
>> RedHat 5.1 and moved to a distro with 'proper' dependency control based
>> on dpkg/apt and more recently aptitude.
>
>   I lasted slightly longer (to 6.0), moving to Debian for the same
> reasons. However, to be fair, that was well over 10 years ago, and the
> package management on RPM-based system has improved quite a bit since
> then. yum is eminently usable, although I find it a little frustrating
> because I don't know how to do many of the things I do know how to do
> with apt...
>

Similar story. Cut my teeth on Red Hat 4 onwards, struggled with using
rpm, migrated to The Other One. Now have just started getting
acquainted with CentOS and actually quite pleasantly surprised. But
because yum is 'closer' to apt than rpm is/was, there is a tendency to
expect it to be the same which it ain't.