[lug] a bit tired of updates

[Wayde Allen]

> This is something that I have heard, though not tested, is actually
> better with the Debian .pkg format.  It supposedly tells you what
> *package* is missing instead of just what library or binary and
> has options to just tell it to install required dependencies
> automatically.

That is correct.  In general I prefer the Debian package management to Red
Hat's.  I think there are more available packages in .rpm format though so
that becomes a bit of a problem.

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)