urpmi and apt-get

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 16:51, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:20:17 -0500
> Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> However, today for example, I upgraded the kernel:
> 
> urpmi --update kernel
> 
> urpmi --update kernel-source
> 
> then run the NVIDIA installer, and boom I'm up again, with LILO configured
> automagically. I'm hoping the new kernel (2.4.22-21) will prove more stable, but
> if it doesn't, is apt similar in it's "user friendliness"? 

apt-get is @ least as friendly.

> Like when I update
> Apache, it's not going to require me to reconfigure, apt-get does the necessary
> fiddly bits for me? 
It shouln't.


> I don't mind having to learn a bit more about the guts of my
> system, quite the contrary, but I'm not looking for *too* much of a leap, like
> Slack or Gentoo.

The leap to Debian is no smaller than to Slack or Gentoo.

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