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Re: Slackware 1996 (was: Swap server .)
On Fri, 07 Jun 1996 03:00:04 +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
>As I see it now, it looks like people who install slackware are stuck with
>it until the next release, unless they are willing to start patching away
>their disk in a manual way. And once a release is out, you practically have
>to erase your disk and re-install.
>
>What I'm aiming at it Debian - it is not a monolithic dist. so pakcages
>are updated on a daily basis by their corresponding maintainers almost
>immidietly after being released by the original authors. It is also
>flexible enough to upgrade/install/deinstall each and every package
>individually (e.g. I moved from Debian 0.93R6 to some core of 1.1 simply by
>installing some basic packages. Most of my binaries are from 0.93 for now,
>though).
What is wrong with the way packages are working with the RedHat distribution?
I have a 3.0.3 core, and I upgraded some of my packages without any problems.
The RPM package management works quite well for me.
Udi