Re:Leaderless Debian
by dredmorbius on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:41AM
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That's because APT serves the user rather than the developed.
As a sysadmin, of one box or 100k boxen, I'd have a hell of a lot less apprehension about installing a DEB than an RPM. Thanks largely to Debian Policy, which governs how packaages will behave.
The fact that Debian has an order of magnitude more in-repo, in-distro packages also counts for something.
As well as the fact that I can start with a minimal installation and add to it only what the box actually needs, a process Red Hat and RPM have never adequately supported.
Source: Have run both, personally and professionally, for nearing a quarter century.
As a sysadmin, of one box or 100k boxen, I'd have a hell of a lot less apprehension about installing a DEB than an RPM. Thanks largely to Debian Policy, which governs how packaages will behave.
The fact that Debian has an order of magnitude more in-repo, in-distro packages also counts for something.
As well as the fact that I can start with a minimal installation and add to it only what the box actually needs, a process Red Hat and RPM have never adequately supported.
Source: Have run both, personally and professionally, for nearing a quarter century.