On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Petra <Kevin J Poorman> wrote: > > No, it's just that rpm is prevalent. There are at least 2 or 3 other > > distributions that use it. > > As I understand it, Dpkg and the deb format where "a day late and a > dollar short" meaning that it hit the masses just a little to late to > catch on with the masses. I think that Apt, and the deb format will win > eventualy. That would be good, but even if that doesn't happen there's still a chance dpkg and rpm could learn to get along better with apt as a sort of mediator.
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