[A83] Re: VoyageT_200 [OT]
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[A83] Re: VoyageT_200 [OT]
> These guidelines maintain quality, and assure that things
work together.
> With RedHat, you end up hunting around for RPM's, and go
through "version
> hell". Try to install one package, and it needs a
different version of
> another, which is already installed, and so on. With
Debian, you have just
> one command, apt-get, that automatically takes care of
everything for you,
> correctly.
I just went through a little experiment, and installed
loads of 2.4.19 packages on a 2.0.36 (a difference of two
years!). Even with a conflict between glibc5 and glibc6 :)
I could get over it within an hour. It's a very flexible
system indeed.
PG
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