>>>>> "jdassen" == jdassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jdassen> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84
jdassen> 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.
jdassen> AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to non-i386
jdassen> machines, source RPMs, libc5 + libc6 version of just about
jdassen> everything, etc. Also, the bigger part of these are not supported
jdassen> by Red Hat in any way.
jdassen> As such, I don't think this says more than "there are a lot of .rpm
jdassen> files around".
Indeed. Also, what we noticed was that the quality of the rpm's often varied
considerably. Directory paths often changed drastically from one package to
the other and other woes that stem from having just about anybody making up a
RPM, then sticking them on a FTP server. The Debian system of having large
numbers of individual maintainers makes for much better packages.
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Nicolai P Guba
BT Labs
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