package management tests: Debian, Mandrake winners

[William Park]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:33:53PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:55:01 -0500
> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I know, I know, I'm just bein' silly. To be honest, I'd love to try
> Slack, but I'm just too much of a newb yet. On the page that was linked
> at the start of this thread, they give the example of MPlayer. With
> urpmi, and the efforts of the guys at PLF, I not only get all the
> *necessary* deps for MPlayer, I get *all* of the codecs as well, so I
> can play those...um...movies that I...uh...obtained legally...
> 
> Whereas in Slack I'd probably have to hunt down all the codec packages
> as well as the necessary libs.
> 
> Beyond that, it's all the GTK and Python and Perl and various Gnome libs
> that would drive me nuts with Slack, but then again I'd probably learn
> more. As I always say, I need another machine, so I can have one to do
> my daily ass-fattening, and another to learn on, with something like
> Slack.
> 
> Come to think of it, I would have liked to see Gentoo on the list of
> distros they tested.

If you install "everything" from distribution CD, you would have these
kind of problems.  :-)

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