[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Young's Statement to Slashdot

[A.L.]

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> If they could get rpm's to be as easy to work with as
> deb's I wouldnt bother, but you only install once, you have to be able to
> maintain it for a LONG time.
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	Just out of curosity, as I have seen such things mentioned before;
but what on earth do *.deb's do that *.rpm's don't?  I've been building my
own rpm's for years, and hacking other folks's spec files and such for
longer than that, and I have never come across anything I wanted to do
with a packaging system that couldn't be done with rpm's.  I don't know a
whole lot about *.deb's, but I would be interested to know if there's some
really cool thing or something that they'll do that rpm's won't.  Thanks
in advance.

	--A.L.Lambert