APT or RPM Re: Linux on a laptop ... step 2?

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:17:32AM -0400, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > Well that's true -- I have very little invested in 'dpkg' per se.
> > I've learned the 'apt-*' commands I need, but I've also bought into some
> > of the Debian philosophy.  Does APT for RPMs do as good a job with
> > dependencies?
> 
> Yes, but only with the proviso that the repository you are using
> has to supply the dependency information. This is possible if
> you have put together the repository yourself; otherwise, you
> are probably out of luck.

The Fedora repositories all do this (except that there /may/ be some
extra repositories that don't support apt).

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