package management tests: Debian, Mandrake winners

[JoeHill]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:33:40 -0500
Toomas Karmo <verbum-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> 
> This same 
> person has just drawn my attention to a Mandrake newsletter which
> itself refers to http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/. The
> http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ article is a report on tests of package
> management in Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE. 
> The winner is Debian. Mandrake comes in second. 

Slackware has package management?!

Seriously, though, Mandrake has come a long way, there's even a new tool
which I wasn't aware of until James Sparenburg on the Mandrake lists
pointed it out, it's called urpmi.setup, and it's on the install CD's.

I've always relied on http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php, but
apparently urpmi.setup makes it even easier.

I am not at all surprised that Mandrake did so well, urpmi is a killer,
and I've barely scratched the surface in terms of it's useability.
Apt-get must be *phenomenal*.

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