On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:47:13AM -0000, dbneeley wrote:
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> I do agree that for most new users the Debian-based distributions tend to be less of a problem than those still clinging to the RPM system. Although Red Hat has claimed for a few years now that they are working on a replacement for RPM that handles dependencies better, so far nothing has been forthcoming.
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Not arguing for or against Deb based vs. RH based. However, yum is,
IMHO, probably comparable to apt as far as being a front end for rpm as
apt is to dpkg. It handles dependencies, gives you ways to work around
them, and has one nice featuer that may or may not be in apt, the
"provides"--for example, if you try to build a package and get
libwhatever.so.5-1/2 not found, you can run
yum provides */libwhatever.so.5-1/2.
It will then search its database, and come back whatever packages may
provide this particular library.
At any rate, at this time, I'd have to say that yum does do quite well
at handling dependencies. Not perfect, it can have problems here and
there, but of course, so can apt.
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