Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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@ Aitvo:
The RPM format doesn't support "suggests" or "recommends" package tags, for one thing. I certainly miss those when I'm using an RPM-based distribution.
@ Cheapskate:
"occasionally i run in to a dependency problem, all i do is save my rpm in a temp directory go to www.rpmfind.net download whatever rpm is required to complete the install and use a root shell in that directory and run rpm -iUv *rpm and the problem is solved..."
The trouble with that is there's no assurance of the quality of the packaging, or even as to the contents. There's *no* QA whatsoever. Any Tom, Dick or Harry might have packaged that RPM you're installing. It might install to the wrong place, it might not even work at the end of it, and they might have trojaned it while they're at it, too. Thankfully Fedora will ensure that all packages within the repository undergo at least a basic level of QA, though still nothing compared to the Debian packages atm.