package management tests: Debian, Mandrake winners
William Park
opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 27 18:55:01 UTC 2003
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:43:25PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> 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?!
Hey, what's wrong with .tgz format? ;-) Slackware keeps list of files
installed, so that you can remove them when uninstalling. In fact,
that's what people do anyway when "upgrading", ie. remove old files,
then install new files.
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