Scott James Remnant wrote: > Walking up to a "man on the street", if anything, you'll find Debian has > a far worse reputation than RPM and RedHat-derived distributions. The > general feeling is that third-party RPMs will almost always install on > any system, while third-party .debs are practically useless.
That's strange, this is not the impression I've gotten from ten years of reading the debian-user mailing list, participating in Linux and Debian user groups, or hearing people discuss services such as backports.org and apt-get.org, or from using them myself. > A definitive example would be the (eventually abandoned) attempt by > Ximian to provide debs for Helix GNOME. Didn't that have more to do with it being experimental, rather flakey, and conflicting badly with the gnome stuff in Debian? -- see shy jo
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