Re: [Mageia-discuss] rpm or deb?

[Kristoffer Grundström]

Why not create a new format with the best of both worlds (if possible)? .mageia ? Hoyt Duff skrev 2010-09-26 19:44: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:13 AM, RAVI KUMAR BALASUBRAMANIAM <ravikumar17...@gmail.com> 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.