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Re: LSB



Previously Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> No way that rpm replaces dpkg; dpkg is doing a far better job in defining
> dependencies, which is IMHO the first and most important job of a package
> management system.

That's actually not true. dpkg and rpm do not define dependencies, they
allow packages to specify them. The difference is that Debian has very
good and strict policies on how to use those dependencies and other
distributions do not.

Wichert.

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