Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was reading the Linux Standard Base(LSB) spec and see that it >specifies the Redhat Package Manager (RPM) v3 as the standard package >manager. After looking at different approaches and philosophy to linux, >I settled on Debian. Debian of course wants to be standard as in the >Filesystem Hierarchy Standard(FSH) and LSB but what gives here.
dpkg is so much technically superior to rpm that we've seen no good reason to shift. :) The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. And the work involved in shifting to rpm, if for some reason we decided to, would be astronomical and consume time much better spent fixing real bugs. In the long term, I've heard it suggested that the two formats may eventually converge (see the interview with Wichert Akkerman on http://www.debianplanet.org/). I wouldn't expect this to be any time in the near future, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
