On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> I've talked to a lot of ex-mandrake users who switched to debian simply for apt,
> and who also said they wouldn't gladly switch back if RPM was hacked up to be
> more robust, flexiable, and reliable as deb(dpkg,apt).
Er... rpm *is* IMHO more flexible than deb*.
AFAIK the deb packages are only simple ar-archives with simple shell-
scripts for de-/installation. Maybe this has changed meanwhile, don't know.
RPM offers a set of powerful macros which are easy to use but also give
complete control and offer more information about a package and its
dependencies. RPM offers you also simple control of compiler options
at build time (e.g. i386, i486 etc.)
When I decided to use a package system for managing my private programs
and tools I looked at .deb and .rpm and decided to use the more powerful
rpm package system.
And please remember:
A package is always as good as its creator! ;-)
Just my $0.02
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