the Debian package management system is way better than the Red Hat Package Manager.
Amen!

If you install a distro that uses the apt package-management tools (like Knoppix and everything else based on Debian) you'll see this about every other time you go to install or update something - apt will automatically ask if you'd like to get the other stuff that you need for the installation to be successful. And you'll say yes, of course.

RPM, the RedHat Package Manager, doesn't do this, and you'll curse and wonder why your shiny new package doesn't work right.

-- Ed