On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:13 AM, RAVI KUMAR BALASUBRAMANIAM <[email protected]> wrote: > only thing i hate about mandriva is its rpm based packages > i prefer apt and deb personally > I can understand a personal preference, but why do you believe that deb is superior to rpm? Given that Mandriva is already rpm-based, what benefit could be derived from abandoning the existing build system and urpmi?
>From everything I have read, neither system has a clear advantage over the other, and the end result of using either is essentially the same. I don't believe that changing to a deb-based system would provide any significant benefit to justify the expense in terms of re-training devs and creating a new build system. -- Hoyt Duff
