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- shethinkmefunny, on 01/02/2009, -1/+3This would be a very good idea. Every RPM-based distro I've ever tried has run into dependency hell in the stable repository within the first month of use for me. DEB/apt/dpkg has its limitations, but with Red Hat's development resources, I'm sure they could eliminate any shortcomings to what is still a functionally superior package management mechanism.
As an added bonus, with the huge bank of information out there about Ubuntu, if Fedora starts using apt/dpkg, it'll become much more appealing to distro hoppers that started on Ubuntu and want to see what else is out there.
That aside, the headline is very misleading. The article is someone's opinion of what RH *should* do, not a statement of what they *will* do.... - matthekc, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1I can see some redhat forum posts my package won't install, and then the replies asking did you download the right .deb the one for redhat not debian.
- 16777216, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2I like how the author thinks YUM is a package format.
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A++ VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE WILL LISTEN TO AGAIN!!!!!!!
/s - darkchild, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1What are the technical reasons for any RPM based to switch to Debian packages? Both package formats work more or less the same, they have the similar pros and cons and both have very good frontends like apt, yum, zypper etc, so why would one distro completely shift from one format to another? Personally I think it would be more work than its worth because they would have to spend a considerable amount of time and money converting thousands of packages unnecessarily. On a side note, RPM is actually an LSB standard and AFAIK DEB is not and this is why any distro that is LSB compliant, ships RPM even if its not its native package format. RPM is also used in other Unix like OSes e.g. the Linux layer in FreeBSD uses RPM and IBM AIX also has support for RPM.
- Krissam, on 01/02/2009, -1/+2I dont know if it've said this here before, but i believe one of the problems for linux is the massive ammount of stuff that does basicly the same thing.
I mean, how many office packages do we have?
Wouldn't one be sufficient? - custangro, on 01/02/2009, -1/+1No they won't
Although the .deb package is more popular; the .rpm package is more robust.
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