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[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 19:13, Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> Is it?  My Debian Stable machine, with GUI and a few small frills,
> weighs in at about 393 MB.  My Debian Unstable machine with tons of
> extra stuff (database with data, boatloads of perl modules, kernel
> source code, other development stuff, Enlightenment window manager)
> takes up 1.7 GB.

Hey, Debian has got RPM-based distros licked in that department.  The
LSB will _never_ give them what apt-deb has.  I'll admit that, even
though I trust RedHat releases over Debian ones.

Now Connectiva has an apt-rpm, but then you run into issues with
distribution RPM differences.  Even if LSB helps eliminate these, I'm
sure there will still be issues in how dependencies work.  E.g., Debs
depend any "SMTP server" for a MTA, but RPMs usually have a specific MTA
"hardwired" in its dependencies (e.g., Sendmail).  I hope a future RPM
v5 starts addressing this.

Regardless, if RedHat was _serious_ about addressing this, in addition
to creating an "apt-rpm" for its own, official packages (which it
basically has via the RedHat Network now), they would help create an
independent archive for downloading adding 3rd party packages too.  In
fact, if RedHat did this, they could finally take a "we are the RPM
standard" leadership role in establishing apt in the RPM-based world via
this 3rd party archive.

As of right now, rpmfind.net doesn't exactly cut it (even though there
_is_ a semi-equivalent to apt for rpmfind.net now), and the guidelines
in LSB still don't match up to what the Debian Guidelines already
provide.

-- Bryan

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