Re: .deb and .rpm package coexistance
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 07:24:58PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
>
> That's right.
> RPM was choised by PLD developers.
[nice plug deleted :) ]
> > So RPM is not a mess by definition. BUt the quality of rpm packages
> > available is what I am worried about. Another thing is that there do exists
> > incompatibilities, and people should be aware of them before trying to mix
> > distributions.
>
> What about LSB project? I read one goal of this project is RPM package
> system..
No, not really. I think you are confusing the different efforts (LSA, LSB,
or whatever they were called). Anyway, the goal is not to specify a
packaging system, but things like library sonames, file system, etc.
Thanks,
Marcus
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