On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:48 -0400, Sam Hiser wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:46 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 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. > > Hey, that's someone's ego you got over there in Germany ;-) in germany? The same is true if we were only doing kde. what're you talking about? -sv -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
