Re: Debian Vs RedHat

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Alec (alec1976nyc@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> On Thursday 10 January 2002 06:19 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]:
> > > Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps?
> >
> > only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are really
> > functionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other
> > things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post).
> 
> If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg?

I'm not sure RPM even existed back then, or it was very rudimentary.
It certainly wasn't widespread: IIRC when I first heard about RedHat, 
I was already using Debian (or perhaps considering the switch from 
Slack).

Dima
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