Change that to almost everyone. Debian still uses the Debian Package
Manager (dpkg). Debian does support RPM, but their packages and
installations use the debian packages.
And not just Debian. Debian-based distributions (e.g. Storm Linux and
Corel) use the *.deb file format too. In
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
In terms of sheer number of software packages, the ~4500 packages of
Debian's soon-to-be-released "potato" version dwarfs the size of Red Hat.
I believe Red Hat has stated that they want to keep their base distribution
small enough to fit on a single
And, as one who's been following the LSB on lsb-discuss, it looks like
the LSB requirement will be to handle RPM formats, although the method
is not specified (i.e. using rpm or alien to convert debs).
jeff smith
Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
In terms of
