On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:28:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:58 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:59:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > [...] but does anyone know if the apt-get system in Ubuntu also
> > suffers from these problems, and if not why not?
>
> apt-get is also in Fedora (yum install apt), so is synaptic, both for a
> very long time. The dependency resolver cannot do much about conflicts and
> broken dependencies in the packages. The Smart Packager Manager (yum
> install smart) tries to find work-arounds, such as downgrades and
> automatic excludes, but it isn't bullet-proof either.
The question wasn't whether one can use Apt in Fedora (I used to do it
before Yum came along) but whether the Ubunto repos are better organized
in order to avoid conflicts.
Not that I've heard of. There are multiple dozen 3rd party extras repos
for Debian and/or Ubuntu, each often maintained by a single individual,
and it is doubtful that those people check their packages against the
entire package universe. The base repositories contain more packages
(there's a lot of old cruft included in the Debian package universe)
than Fedora, so that gives less reason to search for additional repos
elsewhere. And of course, Fedora does not offer/host a "non-free"
repository, which it could control which regard to packaging policy
compliance.