Re: Apt-rpm's future....

Matthew Miller <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:30:53 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:43:12PM -0400, Gary Greene wrote:
> As SMART now exists, I'm curious of the future for apt-rpm. As the project 
> lead for PhoeNUX OS, I'm concerned about whether apt-rpm will continue to 
> improve/be supported over the long haul. As it is, I've seen that debian has 
> a newer version of apt versus apt-rpm (0.6.41). Reason I ask is that we've 
> had requests from an ex-debian user to port apt-proxy for our server product, 
> and if we must move to SMART in the forseeable future, this will be nearly 
> impossible, at least in that implementation. Any info about apt's future 
> would be appreciated.

For a single distro where repository-mixing isn't the intention, I'd suggest
yum.

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