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Re: Sounds very nice but...
by superstoned on Monday 30/Aug/2004, @11:03

I'd say integrate all the features other distributions have in debian. actually there isnt much debian has not... debian isnt that strong with source code, but thats it, imho.
some work on auto-package and zero-install to integrate it in debian whould be appreciated i think.

debian tries to be a 'meta' distribution - and it succeeds, look at mephis, lindows, xandros and others. rpm sucks quite a bit, while you almost never have dependency problems with .deb's... I think its really a pitty gentoo was started instead of improving debian, although I also think it was a good thing, to shake up things a bit.

but anyway, I agree with you on the linux-registry point.

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Re: Sounds very nice but...
by SegFault II. on Monday 30/Aug/2004, @11:57

Well...
I think Gentoo is an even better "meta" distribution.
But thats my poor opinion, not based on any technical reasons.
Just how I feel - so please feel free to ignore it ;-)

You say deb hasn't problems with dependencies.
I don't think that has anything to do with the package-format itself.
Try apt4rpm or urpmi and you won't have dependency-problems with rpm neither.

Back to linux-registry:
Maybe I'll add an interface to this thingy in my apps.
It's a nice thing and it needs support to get widely spread.

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