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Re: Debian
by apokryphos on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @15:47

> RPMs are gzipped cpio archives and DEBs are gzipped ar archives.

In fact, this is another new change in openSUSE Factory. We're switching to LZMA which actually offers better compression (so smaller downloads), and faster decompressing (for faster installation).

See coolo's blog for some figures: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3326

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Re: Debian
by Martin Fitzpatrick on Sunday 06/Apr/2008, @05:15

Out of interest, whats the deal with the two versions of RPM? I haven't used RPM based distros for ~8 years so I was kind of suprised to find out that the codebase split?

Good/bad thing? Which does SUSE use?

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