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Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?



On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:38, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:20 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same
> > package manager.  Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's
> > ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be an enterprise version
> > of Libranet, and, since it charges for updates  to multiple systems
> > (the RH Network), it would be a lot like Lindows!
> 
> They will not admit errors or move into deb, cause this would be like 
> admitting that all their previous work is inferior to other, besides apt 
> works perfectly well with rpms.

Only if the repositories are chock full of packages.

> Many people use RH so their community have the critical mass to make a lot of 
> packages and generate big apt-rpm repositories, that fact combined with their 
> installer and config tools may in time do the RHL project more popular than 
> the Debian project, that would be a shame but I think it is inevitable unless 
> debian become more user friendly in short time.

We'll have to see.  You could be right.

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