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Re: Can I interest anyone in RPM?

> > I think we should at least explore the issue of using RPM/GLINT, etc.,
> > as it's now become the clear standard packaging system for Linux - we

> What's the use of a standard packaging system, if there are subtle
> differences between the distributions using it? All the RPM-based
> distribtions use a slighly different /etc/init.d-layout, may have different
> package-names for the same packages, use different sonames for shared
> libraries and so on.

I fully support this point. Even if Debian would change to RPM, it would
still require us to install our own Debian-RPMs, since Debian uses a
different setup in /etc and some other places. Also, for supporting
something, it'd be better, if we knew which package we're talking about -
I mean, what are you going to do if someone comes along telling you about
various problems when upgrading to libc6.0 via some RPM and only weeks
(and several very confused email messages) later, you find out that the
guy installed a SUSE libc6 package - instead of yours. The user might not
even be aware of that...

Please, stick with .deb...

  Benedikt


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          Hiroshima '45           Chernobyl '86           Windows '95


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