<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Michael Ekstrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@elehack.net">michael@elehack.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
That depends entirely on who you ask. Here, you are likely to get<br>
pro-RPM answers, as Fedora uses RPM and people choose it for a reason.<br>
Each has features and niceties that the other does not. Both are good<br>
package formats and systems; they just have different opinions about how<br>
the world works.<br>
<br>
RPM maintains data for verification of installed software. That has<br>
saved me on at least one occasion.<br>
<br>
DEB has the concept of optional dependencies, which can offer you<br>
greater flexibility in managing what software is installed on your<br>
system. That is probably the biggest Debian/Ubuntu package management<br>
feature I miss since switching to Fedora.<br>
<br>
If you're going to build packages, they're mostly just different. Both<br>
are pretty easy to do once you know what's going on; I find RPM slightly<br>
easier, but Debian provides lots of nice helper scripts for package<br>
builds (and those are inherited by Ubuntu).<br>
<br>
Pick one. You won't really go wrong. In my opinion, software<br>
availability, quality, and maintenance culture are more important<br>
factors for picking a Linux distribution than package manager, unless<br>
you have prior package manager knowledge you're looking to carry with<br>
you. From those perspectives, I have selected Fedora (after using<br>
Debian and Ubuntu for quite some time), but YMMV.</blockquote></div><br>For whatever reason(s) (which actually I also don't understand at this stage), I have decided to go with the .rpm side of Linux. As you say both are great, so yes, anyone I choose, I win!<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>THX<br>