The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.

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Re: DPKG, RPM. Life sucks.



'Bruce Perens wrote:'
>
>I think if we want to beat RPM, we have to write a better RPM than RPM.
>In other words, it has to have a better UI than RPM or DPKG, and has to
>understand DPKG, RPM, and POSIX packages. We have the technology.

dpkg already beats RPM even in terms of UI.  rpm --help gives gobs and
gobs of hard to read options most of which relate to building
packages.  dpkg --help has a simple clean output which makes using it
much easier.  It took ages for me to discover "rpm -qa" whereas "dpkg
-l" not only is clearly documented, it sorts the output!

It is unclear if RedHat's control-panel is better than dselect.
There are several dselect advocates among us (I'm not one of them) who
would argue for dselect's advantages.

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