Thorsten Manegold wrote: > As I see it after reading the comparison at > <http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html> > the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. > Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like > file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.
File dependancies are a very dubious feature. Everyone who's actually had to deal with them hates them. > The area in which dep is better in an important area is > recommendations/suggestions. It also supposes a much more rich set of boolean operators in its depenancy fields, see the footnotes. -- see shy jo
