[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 06:44:37 am Geoffrey wrote:
> > I did think that it was a very interesting read, though. ?I have to
> > wonder what he sees in an RPM-based distribution, because from my
> > experience they require quite a bit more hands-on, low-level maintenance
> > than Debian based systems do (at least the package manager does).
>
> When was the last time you looked at an rpm distro? ?'rpm hell' is a
> thing of the past.

hmmm, what about installing packages from source. Without using checkinstall ( 
NOT part of the standard package) your database doesn't know about any source 
packages.. And I use checkinstall, but I've even had problems making it work 
on some packages.

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