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

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:38:48PM -0400, William Ricker wrote:
> > > I suppose I'm not too invested in APT to switch to RPMs,
> 
> > Apt or dpkg?  Apt is just a front-end for the packaging system, and 
> > there's a version of apt for RPM based systems.
> 
> 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.

-dsr-