On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Arthur Pemberton
<pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> Overall the big win with ubuntu is that they've managed to get most of
the
>>> packages you are likely to ever want into a set of pre-configured
>>> repositories that are generally consistent with each other. With RPM based
>>> systems you'll end up having to track down an assortment of 3rd party
>>> repositories that are not consistent so you'll end up with install
conflicts
>>> or having to maintain different applications on different machines to
>>> isolate them.
>>
>> This is in my view the deal breaker in an enterprise setting.
>>
>> ~af
>
> And also has nothing to do with RPM itself.
Ultimately not. RPM is just a tool that goes out to get packages from
a predefined
location. Whether it finds or not what is looking for... that's another store.
You must mean yum.
Let's just say that Ubuntu tries to ease the pain.
More package maintainers, laxer packing rules. That's all.
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