[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:59:20AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > Why such a problem with Red Hat? And does that problem also extend to
> > Mandrake and other RedHatbased distributions?
> RPM is fragile shit (I -don't- want another corrupted RPM database
> nightmare), vendor A's RPMs aren't compatible with vendor
> B's, and the dependency system is a trainwreck ("unresolved dependency:
> foo-1.8.43.595-XYZ-47.2-gamma37").

I think that's partly a measure of its success^Wpopularity.  The rare
occasions when third parties have released Debian packages have led to
people having all sorts of problems in some cases.

Given insufficiently clued monkeys, they WILL break a packaging system.

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