Re: why .deb?

["Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

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On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:19:24 GMT, Marc Haber wrote:

>I don't know the historical reasons, but why does Debian have its .deb
>format? Does .deb have major advantages over .rpm?

>Is there a FAQ that explains these historical decisions Debian has
>gone though?

    A good look through the mailing list archives for debian-user as well as
debian-devel should yeild the answers you're looking for.  I remember being
in a rather heated discussion about the differences, advantages and
disadvantages of deb, rpm and spf(?).  Why you can pretty much safely ignore
my rantings on the topic, several people did reply to me quite coherantly and
explained the differences quite nicely.

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