Package management

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:12, Charlie Farinella wrote:
> Just to be clear, my question only uses CentOS/Python as an example and is
> not the precise problem I want to solve.  I want to pick a
> distro/procedure and stick to it based on solving this kind of problem.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  :-)

Then it seems your question is a disguised version of "Which distro is best?" 
In that case, I'll suggest your question is really flamebait trying not to be 
flamebait.  I could say Debian is best at this because they are so well known 
for package management, but everyone else would chime in with all the 
standard responses to a Debian zealot.

What it really comes down to though is picking a distro/version that has the 
dependencies you need off the bat.  Pick a distro that has a history of 
having a reliable package repository.  If you're trying to bring an older 
system more up to date with various dependencies for newer software though, 
you'll best be working with a system where you know the package management 
well enough to work around it without conflicting with it.
-N