On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:02:46PM -0500, nate at refried.org wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:32:15PM -0500, Joel Wickard wrote: > > Does anyone know exactly why debian kicks so much ass? > > IMNSHO: > > - apt-get Not debian specific > - large package selection Ditto > - apt-get Ditto > - local mirror Ditto (umn, real-time, etc) > - small initial install You can look at this either way =) > - all build and development tools are packaged Not debian specific > - easy to rebuild packages with modifications rpmbuild -b foo.spec or rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm > - don't need to worry about which version of dpkg you have installed I worry about having dpkg installed at all =) > - apt-get See above =P > Did I miss anything? ;) TROLL -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list