Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:33:03 -0500 (EST), Benjamin Scott
<bscott at ntisys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, at 11:00pm, tbuskey at gmail.com wrote:
> > Are there only the official Debian repositories or are there others that
> > don't follow the Debian standards?
> 
>   One does see third-party packages for Debian, and even repositories, but
> they're a lot less common then for, say, Red Hat/Fedora.  I suspect this is
> mainly because it's a lot easier to get a package into Debian/sid, and once
> it's in it's available to everyone almost immediately.  So there's just a
> lot less call for it.

That certainly make sense
> 
> > In my hazy memories, I recall that RPM came after dpkg and was developed,
> > in part, by the dpkg developer under hire from Redhat.
> 
>   I haven't heard that before, and from what I've read, that is at least
> partly incorrect.  Not that I'm an expert or the information I have is
> authoritative; far from it.  But from what I've read, dpkg was born in 1994.
> RPP, the distant ancestor to RPM, was born around the same time.  RPP was
> followed by PMS, then PM.  Finally, RPM officially debuted in 1995 with Red
> Hat Linux 2.0.

As I said, "hazy memories".  :-)  Maybe it was yggdrasil?  The only
"package" system I remember in wide use before Redhat came out was
SLS's  which Slackware continued.  Not really a package though.

> 
>   Of course, none of this precludes learning lessons from Debian.
> Certainly, RPM came well after dpkg did.
> 
> References:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html
> http://www.debian.or.jp/events/2002/0919-lc2002/JP-Enkai-History.html
> http://rikers.org/rpmbook/node9.html
> http://www.owlriver.com/RH-true-names.html
> 
> --
> Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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