James Tremblay aka SLEducator wrote:
Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/2/6 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us>:
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For some reason, zypper & YaST are not fully appreciated, the meme "apt is better than rpm" is rather entrenched, and repeated by Magazine journalists. When I actually did my evaluation, I was shocked by Debian's issues with over-lapping tools, non-unified dependency calculations causing gotcha's, and noted the user base, weren't switching over to the recommended tool (aptitude) but using CLI. Perhaps we can focus on perceived useability issues in YaST modules, and do performance comparisons, but changing peoples minds is always hard, even when you're loaded with solid facts.
The odd thing is that apt IS placed at an equal level with rpm. They aren't equivalent. rpm and dpkg are. apt and maybe zypper are equivalent. Synaptic and yast2 equals. synaptic = yast2 = gui interface for packages and system apt = zypper = command line interface for packages dpkg = rpm = package manager itself In Ubuntu/Debian land the package manager itself is so seldom talked to even long time Debian users haven't been able to tell me much about it. At one time I was interested in something like rpm's -V option for verification of installed packages in dpkg. There doesn't seem to be one, which I feel is a severe lack in terms of system maintenance. zypper is relatively new but even so better documentation in the form of man pages or a --help option. I dunno, these are just my observations, worth what you paid for them. And if there is documentation I'll just say "Never mind" and read them if you tell me where :) Bruce -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org