Re: deb vs. rpm

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> As I see it after reading the comparison at
> <http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html>
> the rpm format  is comparible with the dep format feature-wise.
> Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important)  areas like 
> file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.

File dependancies are a very dubious feature. Everyone who's actually had to
deal with them hates them.

> The area in which dep  is better in an important area is 
> recommendations/suggestions.

It also supposes a much more rich set of boolean operators in its depenancy
fields, see the footnotes.

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