A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Nov 12th 2007 at 12:31 -0000, quoth 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

Such a limited rosetta stone already exists. The problem though is not 
limited to maning existing .deb files. You also want to be able to create 
new debs. :-(