Well, not really.  But there is a fascinating article on arstechnica
that talks about work being done by Debian developers that would
facilitate such a convergence.  See
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html.  2 exciting
developments out of the Debian camp:  The porting of RedHat's installer
software to Debian (and to work with apt) and the modification of apt to
seamlessly work with both dpg and rpm packages.  This combined with
closer following of the Linux Standards Base, should make life a lot
easier for debian users wanting to install redhat-specific packages (say
a commercial product) or redhat users wanting to install debian packages
(of which there are many) without hacking them through a converter
program like alien.

I'm not sure on the details, but I would like to see something in RPM
that would try to bridge dependencies across debs and rpms in a sane but
flexible manner.
-- 
Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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