On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:29:05AM -0500, Chris Fury wrote: > Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go. > > It *does* kind of suck.
Almost all .debs are official Debian-project .debs. That means they have some quality assurance, accountability etc. You never know who built the .rpm you've just installed, because there's a huge collection of non-Redhat-supplied ones. Non-official .deb files can exist too; they just haven't much to date, because there is no problem with becoming a developer and making them official. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
