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.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
