On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 09:43, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> > Rather than
> >
> > Red Hat, Debian, and similar package systems
> > >
> >
> > would it make more sense to refer to
> >
> > "RPM, APT, and similar package systems"
> >
> > ? (i.e. refer to the package systems, not the GNU/Linux distros).
>
> Well, the tool on Red Hat systems is not called 'rpm' any more.
> Later it was called 'yum'. And now 'dnf'. And on Debian, 'dkpg'
> is used together with 'apt'.
>
I'm not talking about the tool, but the system in both cases.
And if you mean the user-visible suffix of package files, then
> you would need to write @code{.rpm}, @code{.deb}, and so on.
>
"RPM" and "APT" are correct, they name the packaging systems. I think
you'll find that they are widely recognized by readers.
If you still don't agree, then I suggest: "The package systems of most
GNU/Linux distributions."
Either way, Red Hat is not even an (extant) distribution, and neither Red
Hat nor Debian is (or was) a package system.
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