On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 01:52:18PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
: This is the sort of question that generates a lot of traffic (or none) but
: probably isn't answerable. Red Hat's package management system (RPM) was
: an innovation that I think a lot of people (especially on this list)
: appreciate. But Debian has it's own package management system and many
: non-RH distos use RPM now.
There are certain VERY useful features that dpkg offers that RPM doesn't.
Take for example, the /etc/alternatives directory that's present in
Debian.
Suppose you have 5 machines, and want to use a shared, NFS mounted /usr
filesystem. On the fileserver, you might have emacs 19, 20, and xemacs 20
installed. All of the Debian packages will install with names like
/usr/bin/emacs19
/usr/bin/emacs20
/usr/bin/xemacs20
and /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
In the /etc/alternatives directory is a bunch of symlinks that point to the
actual program you would like to choose out of /usr/bin. That's cool, and
extremely handy.
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