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Re: Can I interest anyone in RPM?

I can only speak for myself:

I am a Debian developer because I fell in love with the packaging system
as soon as I saw it.  Not the implementation, not the presentation, but
the vision behind it.  To design a complete distribution that can be
upgraded piece-by-piece across several releases, where every package
knows its place, where every component does the right thing without
being told -- that is a tremendously ambitious project, and perhaps
you no longer see that when you have been part of it for so long.
Here, I saw, was a group of people who aimed as high as they could.

Debian's openness and commitment to free software were essentially
secondary to that.  I would not have joined if it had not had those
qualities (and I probably could not have...), but they did not inspire
me to the same degree.

Sure, there have been problems.  Not everything we want is implemented.
Many bugs are unfixed.  We all know about the rough edges on dselect.
But at the core of the project I still see that absolute dedication to
quality that first attracted me.  A willingness to not only fix problems,
but to fix them _perfectly_.  Even if that takes time.

I fear that if we abandon dpkg in favour of a less powerful system,
it will be a compromise on quality that will be fatal to that spirit.

Richard Braakman


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