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I keep wondering when uninformed people will stop perpetuating this
outright lie. (I can't say I've ever seen it applied to Debian, either. I
mean come on.)

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Thus Spake Warren Myers &lt;volcimaster at gmail.com&gt;:
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:15:36 -0500


&gt; There is a distinct lack of package management under Debian and
&gt; Slackware. In my experience, while RPMs may work with Debian or
&gt; Slackware, they're not designed to do so. I'm most familiar with using
&gt; urpmi under Mandrake, though I have used Yast a bit also. I'm about to
&gt; switch to SuSE on my home machine expressly because the Slackware
&gt; install I have right now doesn't do package managament/updating well.
&gt; 
&gt; That being said, if you're only planning on running this other machine
&gt; as a mailserver, hnalding the preprocessing as you described, there's
&gt; no urgent reason to have fantastic package management, as you won't be
&gt; updating all that often.
&gt; 
&gt; Other than periodic bug fixes, I can't see a reason to be really
&gt; worried about updating a server who only has one task. Presumably you
&gt; won't want to take it offline if at all possible once it's set up. You
&gt; may want to look at www.sol-linux.com.
&gt; 
&gt; They claim to have optimized their distro for servers (hence the name,
&gt; server-optimized-linux), but I have never used it.
&gt; 
&gt; WMM
&gt; 
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