14 Feb
2005
14 Feb
'05
7:48 p.m.
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
You really want to have a look at Debian and apt.
It is the first system I've encountered where I *don't* fear
updates and actually (well, most of the time anyway) don't get
nasty surprises - especially on the stable version (unstable
moves a lot and does have surprises, testing moves and has
surprises only sometimes - like the upgrade from KDE 3.2 to
3.3 which did mess some things up for a while, i.e. uninstalls
3.2 on one run, and installs 3.3 only during one of the consequent
runs).
It is a shame that there is a major distro (even a completely free one),
that I didn't give a serious try. I should definitely do that. I already
use apt-get with fink on MacOSX (which basically is a Debian package
system adapted to MacOSX with many Debian packages precompiled for
MacOSX). apt-get gave me a positive impression of Debian. The major
reason why I didn't try Debian extensively was the fact that I was put
off by dselect some while ago...
With any RPM-based distro, I've had really nasty
stuff happening
with upgrades (changing distro version number, not securtiy
updates)
I imagine that updating SuSE manually may not be an easy task. I once
tried to install a minimal SuSE by removing all RPMs I could. At the end
there were still over 100 packages left which I couldn't remove because
of dependencies issues (even cyclic ones). Upgrading RPMs step-by-step
without breaking dependencies my be difficult.
Greetings, Patrick Kaell