Originally posted by BlackStar
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At any rate, as someone who has been using Fedora as my primary system for nearly five years, I have not noticed any significant problems with package management. I started out using YumEX, which is okay and is still being maintained I believe, but quickly dumped it in favour of the command-line elegance of plain yum. And I have never looked back.
The only real time I had any trouble was when we were still using Pirut, which was a piece of shit and locked down the system preventing one from using yum proper. Packagekit is fine and is becoming a growing standard, and in my experience is certainly better than synaptic, which in my limited use is clunkier and harder to use. But I still prefer command-line yum for most of my package management needs.
Plus Fedora as far as I know is the only system that offers DeltaRPM's and yum presto, which does make my life a LOT easier sometimes, though I could be wrong and some other RPM based distros could have it too. I do know there is nothing in the DEB world like it.
And I think a lot of people seem to be ignoring the idea that makes the USC popular and at the same time makes it incompatible with Fedora: the fact you can distribute paid apps through it. Fedora will (rightfully) not distribute any proprietary or patented code by default in its distribution, so do you really expect it to sell you closed-source commercial applications?
And for the most part, the only paid apps people really would want sold through such a service on Linux are games (as the amount of commercial proprietary software your average Linux user uses that are not games could be counted using the fingers on one hand), so why not get Desura and be done with it? It runs fine on any distribution, you are not locked to a certain distro when you purchase something, it does not contain DRM, its client code is going to be released, and the Desura guys have a better shot at promoting our platform than the USC people ever could.
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