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Re: Debian
by Morty on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @15:24

In fact it had been better if it had been the other way, more binary packages. There should have been one for each distribution, RPM, MPM, SPM, FPM etc(RedHat, Mandriva, Suse and Fedora respectively).

That RPMs are installable across different distributions are one of the main causes of RPMs bad reputation(Late in getting dependency resolvers are the other). If the packages are not carefully created to be distribution independent, installing RPMs from a different distribution has always been a efficent way to mess up your installation.

Installing RedHat RPMs on Mandriva(Mandrake) was always unwise, and trying to do it on on Suse was worse. Unlike Mandriva, Suse was never even based on RedHat making the difference even greater.

Naturally, this has never been a problem for Debian. And any problems caused by mixing stable and unstable repositories has always been firmly placed as the users own fault. And there are reports on the net of funny thing happening when mixing Ubuntu and Debian repositories, so despite having a historic good reputation .deb packages can give you much the same problems as RPMs.

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