Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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There is a couple reasons that they probably wouldn't merge withough significan culture change. Debian won't switch to RPM's because .debs are technically "better" afaik, because of better dependancy resolution(I could be wrong here), and the whole debian infrastructure. Red Hat doens't really want APT because then they couldn't charge for updates(at least in their pay-for distros) like up-to date or whatever that's called. Red Hat won't switch to debs also because they have significan time and mindshare invested in RPM's.
HOwever, having a common install program and meta-packageing tool would be really sweet. I wonder where autopackage is now?