Re: portability as a goal for debian?

[Chris Danis <screechco@home.com>]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:31:52 +0100 Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> 
wrote:

[...]
> there is no replacement for dpkg,
> so stick to it. if dpkg is bloated, unbloat it. that is the
> message. not 'if some given binary is bigger then the ash binary,
> replace it with ash.' I would have thought that much was clear.

$ apt-cache show dpkg | grep Installed-Size
Installed-Size: 2572
$ apt-cache show rpm | grep Installed-Size
Installed-Size: 1000

Sorry, someone had to say it... *runs and hides*

Only joking,
-chris
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