Ubuntu to get Edgy

Ubuntu to get Edgy

Posted Apr 20, 2006 12:44 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Ubuntu to get Edgy by micampe
Parent article: Ubuntu to get Edgy

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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