[liuw]

I upvoted you. Yes, APT was the major reason I chose Debian 15 years ago. It was much better than RPM without YUM (it wasn't part of RH systems back then IIRC).

Nowadays the competitive edge of APT could have diminished, but I never looked else where because I have been quite happy with APT.

[orev]

Yum has been around for so long that I really can’t believe people still bring this up. Even a decade after yum came around, I still heard Debian people comparing “rpm” vs “apt”, which is a completely apples to oranges comparison. I can only assume that those Debian people were so out of touch with other distros that their opinions could not be trusted.

[stirfrykitty]

Yum has been largely replaced by dnf, which is far and away better. Despite being a Debian/Slackware fan since 1998, I do find dnf quite nice. It's still a fair bit slower than apt or pacman, but it's clean and easy to use. Slackware actually has package management systems, but I encourage people to learn how to do things the old school way so they can learn Linux. If you know Slackware, you understand how Linux truly works. Package managers are great for production systems, especially stuff like apt and for the odd systems with software hangups, apt pinning.

[orev]

Yes, but my point is that Debian people always seem to cite “rpm hell” with regard to manually tracking down rpm dependencies, while ignoring the fact that that hasn’t been a problem for decades.