Re: why no package status feature for dpkg?
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
: So who *knows* what I'm running now, and whether it corresponds to
: anything remotely resembling Official Debian 2.0. Somebody remind me
: again how .deb is the perfect packaging format, sublime in all the
: details of its creation, without flaw in its every detail, and how all
: others (should) bow low to it. I still haven't found an explanation
: of why RPM sucks so badly that Debian developers cannot fix it. I
: mean, xterm sucked so badly that somebody had to create xterm-debian
: and break everybody's termcap, so why not RPM-debian and break
: everybody else's RPM manipulators?
Sounds like you need to run RedHat.
<rant>
People who post "I'm pissed off and Debian sucks so help me now"
messages probably don't get it.
</rant>
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