[Klug-general] If RPM based distros wanted to change...

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 15:07:10 GMT 2006


No, i'm not on about using alien. I'm talking about RH/suse/mandrake 
using apt and debs


matt house wrote:
> Quoting George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com>:
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>> If RPM based distros wanted to change to something like apt or similar 
>> would you support it? It is a known fact that the apt system is better 
>> but is RPM so entrenched in distros that no-one would consider changing? 
>> Do you see it more as a "if it aint broke, don't fix it" scenario?
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> do you mean deb? as apt is available for rpm's and has been for a long time. I
> used to use it in suse.
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>> What about LSB, is RPM still a requirement for it?
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>> Just wondering because I know there are quite a few Fedora, Mandrake and 
>> SuSE users here, the rest of us seem to use Ubuntu/Gentoo.
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>> Debate... nicely (that means you JD and Karl :p )
>>
>> George
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