Re: "apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?

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On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 05:56 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   a book i'm reading contains the sentence:
> >
> > "It remains to be seen whether Apt will become the preferred tool for
> > package management for RPM users."
> >
> >   i was unaware that that was even a possibility.  is it?
> >
> > rday
> >
> > ========================================================================
> > Robert P. J. Day
> > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> >
> > http://crashcourse.ca
> > ========================================================================
> >
> >   
>     That sounds like a writer with Debian experience and a feeling Apt 
> is easier than RPM. There are some things in RPM that are quite odd. I 
> think Apt is a simpler method. I have ubuntu-7.10 loaded and it uses Apt 
> and it seems to update as well as RPM.
I know this may be a sily question but what does a file that apt
installs look like. I mean what is its tag that identifies it as a file
that can be installed?
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