Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
>> > It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people
>> > always bring up.
>>
>>   Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same
>> behavior as RPM/YUM, it's just Debian bigots (who crawl out of the
>> woodwork whenever package management is mentioned) were too blinded by
>> zealotry to understand them.
>
> I know this isn't what you're addressing here ..., but there /are/
> actually some fairly deep differences in what RPM and dpkg do ...

  Which, as you say, has nothing to do with what's being addressed.
Binary dependencies exist whether you're aware of them or not.  Some
people blame RPM for somehow causing the problem, since it generates
the warnings.  This is akin to blaming fire alarms for causing fires.

-- Ben