On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at 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