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Re: succesor to dpkg



Mike Leone (mleone@joemagee.com) wrote:

> 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.

No it is not a package manager to "unify" rpms and debs. It is an
'apt-get' LIKE tool for some Rat Hat PAY service. A previous poster was
VERY correct: rpms are very brain dead! Only use them in an emergancy.
It is much better to download a tarball and make it into a deb or
install it into '/usr/local' then to try and muck around with rpms on a
non-rpm system. 

JMHO,
Ron
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