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Re: Is it time to abandon Dpkg?

On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> 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.

	Right. .deb format is not only good for smooth installation on 
users' side, but also very convenient to handle for developpers.
 
> 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.

	Agreed. But I happen to have WordPerfect 6.0 as a .rpm (coming from 
Caldera), and I'd like to have a way to install/remove it from dselect.
I think .deb should remain the standard Debian package format, but 
handling other formats too wouldn't hurt...
 
> If the Debian project does abandon dpkg it would IMO be the triumph
> of form over content.

	Yes, and this is why we should do it. (Debian != M$)
 

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