Unfortunate articles

[Rahul Sundaram]

Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have been reading up on fedoraforums and I found some interesting
>links to articles.  
>
>http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=article-rpm
>
>Thats the article itself.  It poses some interesting points and some of
>them I feel are valid.  The question is though is it an rpm problem or
>is it a yum / apt or whatever package management softwares fault.  I'd
>be interested to hear your point of view.  If this has been pointed out
>before please forgive my ignorance.
>  
>
The article is pretty old.  The dependencies issues that it talks about 
can easily be resolved by using yum or up2date. It might be useful to 
send a mail to the distrowatch maintainer asking him to add a note on 
top implying this or just link to http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/

regards
Rahul