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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urpmi on Mandriva does what rpm should have in the first place. I've yet to have dependency issues using it and sticking with the plentiful Mandriva repositories. rpmdrake for the GUI requiring users.
apt-get and aptitude for Debian are the same way, no dependency issues there either. Aptitude even tracks what packages are installed by request versus what are installed as dependencies so if you uninstall a package and the dependencies are no longer needed, they go away too. I've yet to use synaptec so I don't know how it is for the GUI requiring users.