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Another point of comparison between RedHat and Debian.
>From the Usenet.
PS Am I right to think that the concensus is that Slackware is out of
the story?
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Subject: Re: dpkg (Was Re: emacs-19.31 and lignux)
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In article <m2ennukvp2.fsf_-_@notung.msu.edu>, Steve Dunham wrote:
>For the record, Red Hat has continuous upgrading too - I've done it.
>The only flaw in their system is lack of conflict/dependency
>management.
I've done it too and Debian has two /important/ advantages over rpm.
- live upgrading (Red Hat recommends using single-user mode which is
not acceptable when upgrading a production server)
- Red Hat isn't careful enough about the files in /etc and overwrote
at least a half-dozen that I had configured for the system - again
this is completely unacceptable (at least Red Hat saved backups!).
I won't comment on dselect exept to say that things have changed in
version 1.2.5 and to be fair we should evaluate it before continuing
the discussion.
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