Dear friends:
There is endless talk on Linux forums about the fear of fragmentation.
Some say it's true. Others say it ain't true.
Yet, the bottom line remains that right now you can't (or shouldn't)
install a debian package or even a susu rpm on Red Hat or Mandrake
(where the option to install Debian packages under Package Manager is
clearly there but, we are told, we shouldn't do it). And vice-versa. And
we haven't even mentioned Corel and other distros such as Stampede. Are
we kidding ourselves? Can you speak of real interoperatibility when one
major distro (RedHat, Mandrake, etc.) cannot install the packages of
another major distro (Debian, Corel, etc.). In fact, we are told that we
should even try to avoid installing Red Hat rpms on Mandrake, if
possible. Just where does incompatibility begin and end?
How can this be tolerated? Or rather how can Linux tolerate this and
still talk about interoperatibility of distros? And what does the future
hold?
Worried.
Benjamin
dep wrote:
>corel is based of debian, which uses .deb files. caldera uses rpms. there are
> utilities that allow the use of rpms on debian systems as well, but one should
> tread carefully, because the debian file stricture is subtly but critically
> different from a number of other distributions. i believe slackware joins
> debian in this regard; i know one other distro does, but i'm not certain which
> one, though slackware comes to mind.
>
> --
> dep__________________________________________________________________
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