Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:00, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Wow, Ian's being rather optimistic in thinking that RPM can overcome
> it's own shortcomings to stop sucking. Such as, 1) distro-dependent
> RPMs, RPM isn't standardized like Deb is. 2) Naming conventions. RPM
> isn't standardized. 3) Per-file dependencies need to be eliminated in
> RPM, it's a major contributor to problems 1 and 2. 4) QA in RPM based
> distros is apparently non-existent, contributing to problems 1, 2 and
> 3 and making headlines as it does.
Aren't 1 and 2 caused largely by the fact that several different distros
use and produce RPMs whereas (as far as I know) only Debian uses deb
packages and people produce them specifically for Debian? (I'm not
trying to stir up trouble: please correct me if I'm wrong.)
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