On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, seth vidal wrote: > But I guess my point is that the differences between rpm and deb and yum > and apt is a stone's throw in terms of functionality. > > So what's the big point of differentiation? 1. An ocean of perception. 2. The fact that this distinction splits the entire universe into two camps -- basically for no reason. There's nothing so brilliantly different about rpm and/or dpkg that a common packaging solution couldn't be devised -- if anyone cared. :) --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list