On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Overall the big win with ubuntu is that they've managed to get most of the
>> packages you are likely to ever want into a set of pre-configured
>> repositories that are generally consistent with each other. With RPM based
>> systems you'll end up having to track down an assortment of 3rd party
>> repositories that are not consistent so you'll end up with install conflicts
>> or having to maintain different applications on different machines to
>> isolate them.
>
> This is in my view the deal breaker in an enterprise setting.
>
> ~af
And also has nothing to do with RPM itself.
Ultimately not. RPM is just a tool that goes out to get packages from
a predefined
location. Whether it finds or not what is looking for... that's another store.
Let's just say that Ubuntu tries to ease the pain.
~af