A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 12 November 2007 11:57:22 am Coleman Kane wrote:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > On Monday, Nov 12th 2007 at 11:14 -0000, quoth Neil Joseph Schelly:
>
> > =>Why is RPM or DEB a determining factor?
[...]
> > > > This is not a question of liking what you're familiar with. All of us 
> > know the difference between learning from man pages and having a proper
> > source for learning idiomatic usage.
>
> Sounds like you're in a good position to put together that document ;).

A cheat sheet that translated all common rpm-ese into deb-ian would be kinda 
cool (and vice versa).

Example (dpkg command examples may be on crack):

TASK         | RPM              | DEB
----------------------------------------------------
install pkg  | rpm -ivh pkg.rpm | dpkg -i pkg.deb
get pkg info | rpm -qi pkg      | dpkg --status pkg


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com