On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:41 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > 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. :) > oh you mean like all the wasted effort at freedesktop.org trying to come up with 'standards' for gnome and kde. when if we only did gnome, for example, we wouldn't have to waste time talking about goofball standards for menu files. -sv -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
