On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> The brief of it is my subject line, and the details can be seen in
> <http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/swinstall.html#PKGFORMAT>.
>
> This makes me a little sad, because I'm a Debian fanatic, but I guess them
> Debian hackers will find a way to either keep dpkg going despite this
> choice by the LSB, or find a way to migrate to RPM and still be a really
> great distribution. :-)
Well, I'd suppose the RPM choice is there since it has been widely
adopted, it is de facto for a lot of distributions. There are some
restrictions in the LSB spec though, which you should look at. Also, it
simply says that "Distributions must provide a mechanism for installing
applications in this packaging format..." to wit, Debian has alien, which
allows for this. If software is provided in nothing but RPMs, then Debian
will still be able to use that package. Of course, I would still prefer to
get .DEBs if available. :)
I think that it's a good choice for standardization. It doesn't preclude
other methods of distributing packages, but proposes a minimum requirement
to meet with the standard.
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