Apt as a cure-all. Was: installation KDE3.0

[Kevin Krammer]

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On Saturday, 13. April 2002 23:32, Peter Hutnick wrote:

There was a discussion about a KDE Installer on kde-devel today which got 
moved to a new mailinglist this evening.
One of the topics was the possibility to use libapt for packages in deb or 
rpm format.


> Another thing that apt bigots don't seem to realize is that folks that are
> used to RPMs are used to being able to use a cross section of RPMs from a
> variety of sources.  Once you throw your lot in with apt you are stuck with
> a limited number of apt resources.  And you will likely find yourself

Why?
APT is just a frontend for getting dependend packages of the one oyu want to 
install. On Debain for example, you are still free to install any deb package 
from any other source with dpkg directly.

RPM i just the format of the packages which includes the dependencies. Apt 
only retieves those depenencies and feeds them to the package manager in 
correct order.
Conectiva is a RPM based distribution that used apt.

> RPM doesn't have a silver bullet for this problem, but you can usually get
> RPMs for cutting edge software with mostly stable dependencies.  With apt
> it is much harder to selectively run cutting-edge packages on a generally*
> stable system.  Which, in my experience, is what the vast majority of
> people actually want to do.

Well, my experiance so far tells me that it is easier with apt because you'll 
always get the necessary dependencies in a version which is recent enough, if 
you don't have it installed or if your version is outdated.

Anyway, the comparison is somewhat stupid because, RPM is a package format 
and apt is not.

Cheers,
Kevin

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