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Re: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)



On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:36:00 PDT Bruce Perens (bruce@debian.org) 
wrote:

> 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?

Yes. For nth time.

> 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 :-)

As you pointed out in the deity controversy, we don't have control over it (it seems to be a problem to you that we lack control over deity, which I tend to agree with). And if it's to fork our own version of rpm, I don't see the advantage.

Phil.



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