RPM Heck...( was Re: MEPIS vs. Ubuntu)

[Duncan Anderson]

I have to agree regarding most RPM based distros, although there is one 
exception. Mandrake's urpmi/rpmdrake is brilliant when it comes to 
resolving dependencies.

cheers
Duncan
axcairns wrote:

>I have to agree - I tried FC2 about 6 months ago and used yum for
>package management. I had no end of trouble trying to find a
>combination of yum repositories that gave me the applications I needed
>without conflicting with each other. Much easier on a Debian or Gentoo
>distro.
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>Allan
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