on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:07:18AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone (fallenlordx@edsamail.com.ph) wrote: > > Alec wrote: > > >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? > > That time, RPM wasn't good enough (in short, it sucked big time then Well, yes, after a fashion. Debs came before RPMs. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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