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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by hackyhacky on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:23AM (#42949740)
It's not just the command that one types. DEB packages are more widely available than RPM. The Debian repositories are larger. And for all its flaws, I find dependency resolution is done better on apt than the alternatives.
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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by kennysoona on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:08AM (#42950528)
> I find dependency resolution is done better on apt than the alternatives.

Everyone says this about their favorite package manager.

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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by alexey-salmin on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:33AM (#42950966)
Except for pip, it's like a golden standard of bad dependency resolution
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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by lucasoshiro on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:48AM (#42950207)
> DEB packages are more widely available than RPM. The Debian repositories are larger.

This is up to the repository. If Debian choose RPM it would be as large as it already is

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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by timbit42 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:59PM (#42954250)
But it didn't and it isn't. Debian created DEB three years before RPM was created. Starting out, RPM didn't even support dependencies. I got into Linux before RPM so Debian was the obvious choice. I never understood why RPM was created.
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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu by ta1243 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:45AM (#42960752)
The reason I chose debian in the first place was because of the superiority of apt-get and debian/rules over getting random things from rpmfind.net

I thought redhat distros later introduced yum as the "apt" equivalent?

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