> Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality > between deb and rpm packages?
Thorsten, check out a nice page which Joey put up summarizing features of the different package formats. You can find it at <http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html>. Regarding dependencies, I picked up a Red Hat 5.1 CD-ROM a while ago and played with it (I've since given it away) just to see the differences. I was surprised at how crudely Red Hat handled dependencies. Compared to dselect's "pop up a help screen and 'hey, resolve this mess' with 'here are my recommendations'" method, Red Hat was downright barbaric about the process. While I don't claim to be a Red Hat expert, all I could get it to do was to give me a warning about dependencies, and it expected me to *manually* (look of shock on face!:-) go out and (A) find where those packages were in its package manager, and (B) do the grunt work of trying to remember the conflicting names and then selecting/deselecting them. After that experience I've never uttered a single bad word about dselect, apt-get, or dpkg.:-) -- . | Celebrate the Linux "WE'RE NEVER GOING OUT Randy | OF BUSINESS SALE" by downloading an entire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | operating system, apps, games, utilities, http://www.golgotha.net | and source code at http://www.debian.org
