Another look at Linux packaging systems
The sad shape of apt-rpm, especially in combination with rpm5, has caused us to look at alternatives. Our decision to go with rpm and apt-get was made when we started 8 years ago – since then, a number of new things have come up and a lot of things could have changed.
Looking at the basic package managers out there, a lot of things have remained the same – while rpm and dpkg both made some progress, they’re basically what they used to be — both work, both have their own set of problems, but we do still believe our decision to go with rpm was the right one: rpm spec files are much easier to understand especially for non-programmers, and for experienced users, they take less time to write.
The problems people commonly talk about when saying rpm sucks are often not related to rpm — e.g. the “dependency mess” is caused by people trying to mix packages from Ark, Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, Yoper, …
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