apt-get dist-upgrade hosed gnome
 

i tried to apt-get dist-upgrade to both sarge and sid and both times it hosed gnome. The error was broken dependencies and it kept asking me if libgnome-perl was installed. when i tried to apt-get that i got failed dependencies. I just can't figure out whats going on

Gnome seems to be slightly out of whack in unstable at the moment.

well, it did it for testing too though...i got the same errors

apt-get was pretty cool few months ago and I thought that with it, my dependencies problem would be solved. Using apt-get nowadays you will most liked end with a broken distro :(. At least I've broken both Redhat and Jamd with apt-get...

apt-get isn't really made for rpm's it's like running a M$ app with wine and hope for the best.

yup, in agreement here...

I don't know about that... running an M$ app with wine will not mess with your distro, unless you did something really stupid, or intentionally. You usually don't run wine as root ;)

Though, as for reliability, I would agree.