In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > So if I understand you and others who have replied correctly, the > main advantage is the automatic dep-resolustion via ftp. > But it seems to me that this has nothing to do with the deb format > itself. Instead it is something that results out of Debian making > better use of the features of the packageformat. > I guess you could write a program like apt-get for rpm too. > > As I see it after reading the comparison at > <http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html> > the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. > Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like > file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps. > The area in which dep is better in an important area is > recommendations/suggestions. > > So maybe RedHat (and others) only do not make use of the features > that rpm offers, while dep-Packagers do. > Also with deps you can be sure that they are comptible with your > Debian system, something not the case with rpms. > > Am I missing someting here?
That sounds about right. -Mitch
