[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Sun Mar 23 13:42:04 CDT 2008


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On Sunday 23 March 2008 10:30:45 am Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Paul Johnson írta:
> > .deb is really easy by comparison, aptitude does literally everything for
> > you instead of sending you into dependency hell looking for every RPM you
> > need to install the RPM you want.  RPM based distros are generally
> > exceedingly difficult to upgrade thanks to the poor package management.
>
> Sorry, that's just FUD. You face the same dependency hell
> if you use plain old dpkg, the rpm equivalent. Please, compare yum
> with apt-get or compare yumex or pirut or whatever that does
> package management presenting a GUI with aptitude if you want to be fair.

That was partly my point.  There's no single comprehensive interface to RPM 
like there is with apt.  Name one that comes close to working as well as apt 
(no, apt-rpm doesn't compare to regular apt, either) then you might have a 
point.

- -- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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