Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

"Alex McKenzie" <alex@boxchain.com> writes:

> So what makes the deb system work for deep upgrades? I remember the
> horrors I went through with rpm, especially the snafu of upgrading to
> rpm-4. Is deb more flexible about dependencies? Or is it just the
> convenience of apt?

Debian is overwhelming better with dependencies. the convenience
of apt and deb's is within it's dependency handling.

>
> My fear with apt is that it'll try to upgrade its way out of dependency
> hell, and start breaking things.

Unless you force-override a lot of things, you won't break.

> I've had bad experiences with Mandrake and simple hardware, like a mouse.
> And 8.0 (2.4.3 based) paniced a lot, but that was probably the instability
> of that kernel.

I have _never_ "re-installed" a Debian installation. I have done
several that have run for _years_ after the initial CD install doing
simple "apt-get dist-upgrade" along the way.

There's inevitably things that need to change, configuration updates,
etc. But my experience is that debian's system handles this more
gracefully than anyway else (I have extensive experience with Solaris,
Gentoo, Slackware, Redhat, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD)

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
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