* Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thursday 10 January 2002 06:19 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]: > > > Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of dpkg-shlibdeps? > > > > only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are really > > functionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other > > things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post). > > If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg?
I'm not sure RPM even existed back then, or it was very rudimentary. It certainly wasn't widespread: IIRC when I first heard about RedHat, I was already using Debian (or perhaps considering the switch from Slack). Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor
