On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 26.01.2013 22:07, schrieb James Freer:
From what i have seen of fedora and centos in the rpm world the repos are very much better in the debian world. To me the stability comes from the distro and it's repos. Not being able to install Abiword or yumex, having to spend time selecting options for repos to me simply isn't worth it.
I've just installed a Slackware distro today and it's the best i've ever tried in 6 years of using linux. It's speed, ease of installation put's it in a league of its own. Or as their 'chilling warning goes' Once you go Slack... you never go back!
What!
have fun with a package management without dependency tracking well, without the probles above are hidden, but not solved
a funny thing to play with - but laughable for production environments which you maintain over many years without reinstall them ever
From what i've read Slackware has had dependency problems covered
since it introduced Gslapt ans Slapt. From what i could see last evening it seems as good as apt/synaptic. Although one could say that's not much good; synaptic doesn't completely remove all associated files, neither does apt's --purge option, although the more recent --autoremove does. But Debian's default package manager aptitude which few know how to use as they don't print off and read the 1 ins thick manual that comes with it - aptitude is the best package manager of all.
There was only dependency problems with rpm and debian's dpkg - the apps didn't cope with it. Yum may do it now but it is also very slow by comparison with Aptitude. I think you've been unfairly critical tbh. From what i can deduce neither Debian or Redhat systems come close to the speed of slackware and i don't know why yet.
james