On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:27:13PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2002 05:37 pm, Alec wrote: > > If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg? > > dpkg was created back in the early days. Either RPM wasn't written > yet, or wasn't the most popular packager.
Indeed, dpkg's beginnings predate the founding of Red Hat, and the current package format existed around the time of Red Hat's first public release. See: http://bad.debian.net/list/2000-April/000804.html -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
