Re: Debian (was Re: [Sheflug] Re: Problem )

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Hi

> Aye - I don't know how many Debian users there are on Sheflug - tends to be
> little talk about it compared to SuSE and Redhat...so thought I'd gripe and
> see if anyone could put me right :)

Add one more - from 5 Linux boxes I've got around me 3 are running SuSE
and 2 - Debian. I've just started using Debian couple months ago, some
things seem to be better organized than, say, in SuSE. Not only package
management (which, I agree, is not ideal in Debian either), but how
packages are actually built. It happened to me many times, that after I
install a SuSE rpm of the foo package, which is required to compile
and run the bar package, not available as rpm, I still can't compile bar
package, because, typically, it's ./configure doesn't find
foo-config script, and thus concludes that foo isn't installed... No, its
not in foo-devel either... So I have to go get foo's source too, etc. Or
how many times, when upgrading SuSE's version you get "these 60 packages,
installed on your system do not exist in the newer version, so, I don't
know what's gonna happen to them, or they have version numbers
incomparable with those from the newer release"...

Just my 2p.:-)

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.
email: g.liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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