Hi everyone, I just had a kind of "waaay out there" idea I thought I would toss on here. Mandrake's urpmi mimicks the concept of apt-get, the menu system driving Mandrake is Debian's, and many other things are done in a Debianish way. So my thought is this, what about making Mandrake 9.0 or something like that Debian-based? Here are the benefits as I see them:
1.) While RPM is great, dpkg seems to offer some really wonderful features. It's also a lot easier to make packages, and simple to convert them (I guess you could alias the command rpm to "alien --to-deb," actually). 2.) Urpmi too is very nice, but a Mandrake Debian setup would have a major benefit - apt-get could be configured first to get Mandrake packages, and if one didn't exist for a particular program, it could revert "woody" or "sid" packages. 3.) Mandrake could be the first to offer offer an i586-optimized Debian-based distro. 4.) This would further distinguish MDK from the "others" (RedHat and SuSE). 5.) Finally, since Mandrake uses Debian-like ideas, and even uses the Debian menu system, I would think it would be simple (relatively speaking) to make such a move. I know it seems like this is a space that is already take with Libranet and soon Xandros, but it seems to me the low-level Debian utilities combined with the excellent interface of Mandrake could be truly a "killer app." Any thoughts? -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
