Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 23rd Dec 2008 00:30 UTC
A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike existing package managers, Nix allows different versions of software to live side by side, and permits sane rollbacks of software upgrades.
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2006-06-02
You right that everything depends on the quality of the packages. The main reason why Debian and Ubuntu are better in dist-upgrade scenarios is that they offer more packages in their repositories so it's less likely to hit a package with broken dependencies.