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Ubuntu to get EdgyUbuntu to get EdgyPosted Apr 20, 2006 9:18 UTC (Thu) by micampe (guest, #4384)In reply to: Ubuntu to get Edgy by penguin Parent article: Ubuntu to get Edgy
Ubuntu is demonstrating that Debian's superiority in package and dependencies management had nothing to do with the particular package format or tools, but with the fact the Debian always had a single repository. Just like Macs (used?) to work better than PCs because Apple controls both the hardware and the software. Debian is now almost in the same situation of Red Hat when Mandrake arised.
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Ubuntu to get Edgy Posted Apr 20, 2006 12:44 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] Sorry, it has everything with package and dependencies management (there's a good reason why apt was ported to rpm, and yum and urpmi and whatnot were developed).
Things "mostly" (ie, for all practical purposes), tend to work fine with a heterogeneous Debian-type setup with specific packages sourced from elsewhere. My laptop started off with Knoppix nearly three years ago, and ran a curious mix of Debian testing and unstable for a while (I'd often install just individual packages and their dependencies, never dist-upgrade), then eventually I dist-upgraded to ubuntu breezy, and finally to ubuntu dapper. There were mild hiccups in the debian-ubuntu transition (mainly because it involved an xfree86->xorg transition), but otherwise not a hitch in the whole process. This would have been quite impossible with RPM-based distributions. Not that I recommend such a route to newbies even with debian-ubuntu: occasionally one does get dependency problems that have to be resolved manually, eg by removing a conflicting package and all its dependencies and then reinstalling them later. But at least it can be done without hosing your system.
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