> Change that to almost everyone. Debian still uses the Debian Package
> Manager (dpkg). Debian does support RPM, but their packages and
> installations use the debian packages.
And not just Debian. Debian-based distributions (e.g. Storm Linux and
Corel) use the *.deb file format too. In terms of sheer number of software
packages, the ~4500 packages of Debian's soon-to-be-released "potato"
version dwarfs the size of Red Hat.
In some ways (competition of features) I see the *.rpm and *.deb contest
as a benefit, but for 3rd party software developers, the non-standard
package format is a nightmare. We really need the LSB to evolve into
something rock solid and a common package format would be a nice bonus for
3rd party commercial developers.
Unfortunately, there's a couple of ideologies behind the package
formats. IMHO (from a Debian viewpoint) Red Hat's package format is a bit
looser while Debian -- at least for official developers -- maintains a
militant attitude that package maintainers can and cannot do certain
things. I don't see any merging of package formats any time soon on the
horizon.
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