Re: Debian Vs RedHat
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:27:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 10 January 2002 05:37 pm, Alec wrote:
> > If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg?
>
> dpkg was created back in the early days. Either RPM wasn't written
> yet, or wasn't the most popular packager.
Indeed, dpkg's beginnings predate the founding of Red Hat, and the
current package format existed around the time of Red Hat's first public
release. See:
http://bad.debian.net/list/2000-April/000804.html
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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