[UFO Chicago] Re: Brian's Conversion from FreeBSD to Debian and Questions on X

[Neil R. Ormos]

Jesse Becker wrote:

> --- Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
   [ . . . ]

>> And I'd prefer to ignore RedHat, because I
>> really don't like RPM.

> Portage > RPM
>    and
> RPM >>> dpkg.

> RPM has it's idosyncracies, but I have found it
> quite manageable.  Packaging is a non-trivial
> problem, but this does the user side well
> enough.  For the package maintainers, I've found
> RPM to be nicer than dpkg.  <shrug each to his
> own.

> And for the Debian folks out there: *NO*,
> apt-get does not compare with rpm.  rpm ~ dpkg,
> and apt-get/dselect ~ up2date(or whatever for
> non-RH distros).

Have you tried synaptic or aptitude?

--Neil