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Re: Should we leave dpkg?

> install Debian on my system. The one and only reason was, 
> that Debian's package system really _Works_. 

Exactly.  I'd been running an MCC 1.0+ based system (which was what I
jumped to from SLS [remember SLS? slackware without the slack :-)])
and decided I needed a clean way to go from a.out->elf.  MCC had
basically stagnated (still one of the best rescue disks out there
though) so I converted laterally to debian 0.96, things still worked,
then (later when it had been figured out) did the cookbook libc/ldso
update, and then incrementally upgraded stuff and could make sure it
still *worked* throughout the whole process... the system has survived
quite nicely.

If RPM had all of the features of debian, then a version of dpkg that
could transparently upgrade to rpms would be fine -- but it doesn't.
rpm is still way back on the learning curve -- I've certainly heard
lots of problems upgrading redhat systems up to 4.0, using 3.x tools;
it just doesn't seem to work...

So: dpkg is probably one of the *important* parts of debian.  (Heck,
I've even thought about using it on my sunos, solaris, and netbsd
machines... excuse me, my GNU/sunos, GNU/solaris, and GNU/netbsd
machines -- which is why it would actually work :-)


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