On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Or we could all still be on apt-rpm and still be having multilib and >> related issues. And while synaptic is still far and away the best >> package management GUI out there bar none, the apt-rpm backend has (or >> at least had) significant issues at that time. > > Hey ! There was nothing wrong with apt-rpm, I've been using it until > November last year on CentOS-5 before I switched to RHEL6. The multi-lib > problems were exagerated and fixed, the biggest problem was the lack of > development after the main developer moved to Conectiva, and the second > maintainer to Red Hat. > There's *lots* that's wrong with apt-rpm, don't start me. Meanwhile -- now that there's an interested/active maintainer at Caixa Magica -- there's some hope of improving apt-rpm. > But I do prefer python over C++ anytime, though speedwise it was > unbeatable. > FICL! OCAML! Java! Perl! Pyhon (but which, sigh)! ... choice of implementation language increasingly fragments deployable solutions. 73 de Jeff