On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:29 AM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Dishant Pandya <drpdishant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my opinion RPM is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum package manager on Fedora are far more advanced than apt on Ubuntu and other Debian Based system. > > I have been using fedora for over 2 years now and I have never faced the package installation issues that I faced with apt and dpkg, for whatever unknown reasons, may be some corruption of package file, installation state Ubuntu's package manager gets erroneous to an unrecoverable state, and I being a normal desktop user wasn't able to restore the state, and had to reinstall the whole OS from scratch. dpkg/apt is good when it works, but when it breaks its unrecoverable. RPM , dnf/yum are more reliable. > > That poor joke of mine keeps hitting home :) > > Fedora remains an RPM-based system using DNF. What this change was > about was really to allow using apt with deb packages. It makes it easier to > pull more tools from the dpkg ecosystem like mock equivalent sbuild. > > Nothing to worry about. > > Cheers, > Dridi Simply put, "no". Debian and Ubuntu ".deb" packages too often don't follow the File System Hierarchy, they may have different layouts and package naming capitalization schemes for matching Fedora packagers like "PyYAML", they may have overlapping pre-set uids and mismatched group name conventions, etc., etc, and the grub intigration for new kernels is likely to be a nightmare. It would be a full-time job for several competent engineers to do that kind of package impedance matching. Just..... no.aot abd deb inside a "podman" baswed container? Maybe? But it seems not worth the pain. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx