On Sunday 25 November 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 04:54 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > a book i'm reading contains the sentence: > > > > > > "It remains to be seen whether Apt will become the preferred tool for > > > package management for RPM users." > > > > > > i was unaware that that was even a possibility. is it? > > > > > > rday > > > > I would not think so. the Debian package that is equivalent to rpm is > > dpkg. Like rpm it can install stuff, whinge about missing deps and so on. > > > > The apt suite wraps it, as the yum suite wraps rpm. > > apt-get fixes the deps that dpkg complains about, downloads stuff, > > installs it, downloads source and wraps the build process. > > But again the question. apt-get does not use rpm's, does it? On a fedora/redhat system yes Dennis
