Re: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)
From: Lalo Martins <lalo@javali.com.br>
> Not serious? I almost unsubscribed and started uninstalling
> Debian machines when I read that. DPKG and .deb are about
> 150% superior sollutions, and you can't improve RPM because
> RedHat makes very sure it's proprietary.
As long as the majority of people still think dpkg/dselect are 150%
superior, we'll stick with them. Is that how everyone feels?
However, I reject your point that it's proprietary - RPM is GPL-ed.
It's also a finished program and we have the source code in hand.
That does say something for it :-)
Thanks
Bruce
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