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Re: Which distributions use GLIBC 6?



Ariel Biener <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il> wrote:
|I think Debian has the most unfriendly package management system I've ever
|seen in my life. It takes alot of time to get the hang of it. I wouldn't

Maybe.  But I'd like to add acouple of points:

1. A source of a lot of confusion was the instability of dselect, the
   main front-end to the packaging system.  It's been fixed many months
   (maybe over a year) ago and now it's pretty predictable (just follow
   the steps in the order they appeare on the main menu)

2. Debian is aware of the ugliness of dselect and setup a project called
   "Deity".  It is now in a stage were the front-end is pretty done and
   they startted working on the real functionality.  You can grab it
   from the project/experimental directory on Debian mirrors.

3. From tracing people who keep asking "what RPM's should I
   install/update/remove when installing this package?" I suspect
   that RH have still something to learn from Debian.

--Amos

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