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Re: [MiNT] RPM --> cpio --> TGZ

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Subject: Re: [MiNT] RPM --> cpio --> TGZ
From: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:04:31 +0200 (EET)
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10012182000100.22115-100000@shell2>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Katherine Ellis wrote:

> RPM is a good way to consolidate distributions, a coherant system.

Sorry, I beg to differ.  

Debian's way of handling dependancies, combined with a more
accute auditing of each package before it is allowed to make it
to the distribution, is simply _much_ better than RPM.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine, IT Consultant * http://funkyware.atari.org/  
* May the Funk be with Q! * Author of the Atari TT030 Homepage.

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