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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Member since:2007-04-26
No, openSuSe has as big repositories. Nevertheless the official openSuSE points out that the only endorsed way upgrading the distro is by starting the installer DVD but I made a pure "zypper dup" (before I updated the repository baseurls to 11.1 and I then upgraded "zypper in zypper"). And I had no problem!
But coming from debian-sidux it seems to me that the apt packaging system has more expressiveness than any rpm system (think of all the meta and transitional debian packages!). The openSUSE wiki has a special page describing the difficulties of splitting or merging packages therefore. Ever wonder why they do not just change to apt packages then ? I know there was thus an attempt going on some years ago...
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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.