Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot
Linked by Eugenia Loli on Sat 16th Sep 2006 17:39 UTC
NetBSD BSD devcenter at onlamp.com has an interview with Charles M. Hannum, one of the creators of the NetBSD Project and the NetBSD Foundation, about the evolution of the project, funds management, problems with licenses and hardware documentation, the link with vendors, past and current mistakes, and what we can learn from the Linux development process.
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RE: Package Management
by miscz on Sat 16th Sep 2006 18:35 UTC in reply to "Package Management"
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RE[2]: Package Management
by kernelpanicked on Sat 16th Sep 2006 18:48 in reply to "RE: Package Management"
kernelpanicked Member since:
2006-02-01

SmartPM has nothing to do with what is being discussed. Go pimp your package management system elsewhere. ;)

It's about package formats, and I totally agree that there need only be one. Personally my choice happens to be the same as the LSB. Now if everyone else would stop making .deb packages everything would be perfect.


* Before you mod trolls whip out your mice and get ready to mod me to hell, please understand this post was written with so much tongue-in-cheek my mouth is a bit sore.

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RE[3]: Package Management
by miscz on Sat 16th Sep 2006 19:40 in reply to "RE[2]: Package Management"
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2005-07-17

I did not pimp "my" package manager, I do not use it. I think that once we have easy way of dealing with both RPM and DEBs Linux community will agree on one standard as it will be easier to migrate.
Right now judging by top10 distrowatch stats deb to rpm ratio is about 6:5. LSB is just unreal since it was proposed by commercial Linux vendors who in majority produce Red Hat derivatives and inherited RPM package manager.

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