[Gllug] 2.4.15

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Nov 23 16:20:38 UTC 2001


On Friday, 23 Nov 2001, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
>Apt is a great tool and it would IMO be good to see it available to more 
>rpm-based distributions.  I don't think Red Hat have much of an 
>incentive, though - it offers free competition to the Red Hat Network.  

It's a great tool relative to what the RH boys have, but it's pretty
broken by Debian's standards; it was written with a fairly fundamental
misunderstanding of how dpkg works.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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