On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:17:14AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:55:33PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Can we please not be so negative about rpm? I'll agree that dpkg is > > better (and of course I'm completely not biased here :), but rpm > > is not a piece of crap. > > OK, in the light of trying to say something positive about rpm might I > suggest to henceforth call it a "piece of manure" so at least people might > think it is worthwhile in helping something grow... like having a growing > respect for apt? :)
ROFL that would make a nice .sig if it weren't so long ;-) its quite true too, i had to go though a session with rpm after switching to debian and boy did it cause alot of swearing ;-) my respect for apt/dpkg certianly grew quite a bit. i then blew away that redhat based dist from my powerpc and installed potato... seriously though i think Wichert is just asking that we be a bit more professional when expressing our dislike for rpm, i suppose it is better if we don't look too much like raving lunatics (sp?) (even if we are :P) afterall its going to take alot of `professionalism' to get that silly LSB to stop `standardizing' on things like rpm... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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