Re: succesor to dpkg
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From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:48:43 -0800
>On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
>> I seem to recall talk of a new package system for debian. The only things I
>> remember are that it would understand rpm's as well as others, and I think
>> its name started with the letter "h".
>>
>> Can anyone help me with a URL? Or am I dreaming?
>
>i think your dreaming. the closest you can ever get to just
>installing .rpms is alien. this is not a format issue but a lack of
There was a news blurb on slashdot recently, about someone working on a new package manager, to unify .rpm and .deb formats. Don't recall that it was being touted as a new package manager JUST for Debian, however.
So no, you're not dreaming.
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