On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than > rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they > have 10434 packages listed.
AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to non-i386 machines, source RPMs, libc5 + libc6 version of just about everything, etc. Also, the bigger part of these are not supported by Red Hat in any way. As such, I don't think this says more than "there are a lot of .rpm files around". > Now, do we have this number of deb packages?? The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range (calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for precise numbers). > Anyway, we can always install RPM in our debian system. But my > concern is: Will it stuff up the dpkg system?? If you install it with "rpm", in all likeliness, yes. If you use "alien", probably not (unless it's an RPM of a critical system component). HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
