Hi > This illustrates the beauty of open-source software in general, > actually. Apt was originally the package management system for Debian. > Then, the distributors of Connectiva (sp?), another rpm-based distro, > "ported" apt to the rpm environment. They could do this because the > inventors of Debian released apt under GPL. I really believe, contrary > to the reviewers at DistroWatch, that apt-for-rpm has repaired the rpm > system's worst major defect. > > Temlakos connectiva is very popular is some regions and have done a great work by releasing everything they produce as gpl'ed stuff including apt4rpm and synaptic. the distrowatch article you talk about is a very old one. one important problem yet to solve by fedora itself is not automatic dependency is creating the infrastructure for community participating like mandrake does. that should result in a big *single* repository of free packages. the automatic dependency problem was solved long before by up2date and apt4rpm and yum have added to the feature set. if only they would use the same metadata format for repos, thats another milestone regards Rahul Sundaram > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
