Re: Re^2: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)
On Tue 23 Sep 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> Am 23.09.97 schrieb davidw # cks.com ...
>
> Moin David!
>
> DW> Questions of which is better or worse appart, RPM is released under the
> DW> GPL. Of course the one redhat releases is probably the accepted
> DW> 'standard', and therefore, modification of it to meet our needs might be
> DW> troublesome. But I don't know enough to really judge.
>
> We shouldn't use RPM, because it produces a lot of problems. For example a
> lot of users reported problems to install a Redhat package on an SuSE
> system.
> These distributions use the same package system, but not the same
> directory structure and the same package names. If a user downloads a DEB
> package, he could be sure, that this package will work with the Debian
> distribution.
buh : a problem.
run away, very very fast !
i don't think this is debian style.
we could at least try to face the problems. also other people are
thinking about this, i talked to suse,delix,caldera ...
andreas
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: