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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?

Lars:
> Having a little less diversity in the Linux world would be a
> good thing. I don't know if that means that Debian should just
> quit or not, but we should think carefully about adopting RPM.
> It would help if we had an objective techical comparison of
> RPM and dpkg. What other differences are there, except that
> dpkg is ours and dselect has a lousy user interface?

On occasion people have asked me, why doesn't Debian just use the .rpm
package format ?  The answer to this is: .deb is more powerful.  It
has more kinds of dependencies and more kinds of
maintainer/installation script.

Red Hat probably think these are just overcomplications, however, it
is these features that allow us to do an in-place and/or partial
upgrade without taking the system right down to do it.

These arguments apply even more to using rpm to do the actual
installation.

Incidentally, providing a program to install .rpm's is a two-edged
sword: people may choose our distribution because of it, but they may
choose to release their packages only as .rpm's as a result.

I think it's a great shame that noone has stepped into the breach wrt
dselect's user interface.  I will have (make?) some time after the end
of January to work on it.  I don't think it's a particularly big job -
I could do a new in time for the 1.3 codefreeze (end of February,
right ?).

If the Debian project does abandon dpkg it would IMO be the triumph
of form over content.

Ian.


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