This isn't really a problem at all. The Linux Standard Base (chapter
22) says that all platforms should support RPM as a package standard.
All platforms *can*, to the best of my knowledge, support RPM as a
package standard. Ubuntu certainly can, via alien. So we should be
okay, no?
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Multiple package managers hurting Linux adoption
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Thanks for bringing this idea up. It really is an interesting idea that
could most certainly advance widespread adoption of Linux.
However, this isn't a bug in Apt. As such, I am closing this report.
BUT! Feel free to discuss this idea on Brainstorm (
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ ) as I'm
The package manager is just one part of the problem, and it's not even
clear that the problem as a whole can be reasonably solved.
Imagine for a moment that all distros used .deb as their package format.
That is a small step in the right direction (leaving aside the relative
merits of .deb vs
I agree that the major problem is dependencies. In fact, in this age
with high-speed internet and cheap disk space, I think that many
packages go too far with their dependencies. I would very much like to
see an additional 10 50k libraries (half a meg) added to a download than
have to jump through
Seconded. If software developers could put a simple Download for
Linux link on their sites as they do for Win32 or OS X apps, it would
likely result in more software releases for Linux. The Slashdot post
referenced above is part of a thread about the WINE 1.0 release, a
reminder that releasing
