Thursday, December 2, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Help choosing the right Linux Distro

 

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:23:55PM -0000, dbneeley wrote:
> The standard application manager for Kubuntu is KPackageKit, which I abor.
>
> As for RPM, please someone correct me if I'm wrong--but last I heard the RPM resource database kept on your system lacks sufficient discrimination when it comes to required dependencies--that was originally a major reason it was to be completely rewritten. Has this been done?
>

Yum, the front end for rpm, (I don't know about the GUI package
managers) has handled this quite well for a long time.

> Regardless of the front end used, if installing a new app creates dependency issues for ones already installed, that would seem a very bad idea...and before I went to Debian-based distros, that happened to me more than once on both SuSE and Red Hat. Has this been fixed?
>

I've not run into it, which may, of course, only mean it's fixed on the
packages I use. :)

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