Re: RPM should be renamed to WTF

John Andersen <jsa-qezjBH/[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:13:53 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:23, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Why does any company which makes first steps towards linux assume RPM was
> the answer of the Gods?
> I happily run Slackware, and If I switch one day (because updating SW is a
> hassle) it's gonna be debian for sure - no rpm there either (for Bob's
> sake!). Now being the owner of a Radeon board I installed the ATI drivers
> but had to use rpm, so it won't show up in /var/log/packages, where SW
> stores info about installed software.

Isn't that what rpm2deb is all about?
http://www.openoffice.de/linux/buch/alien.html




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