On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:46 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:41 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> >
> > > But I guess my point is that the differences between rpm and deb and yum
> > > and apt is a stone's throw in terms of functionality.
> > >
> > > So what's the big point of differentiation?
> >
> > 1. An ocean of perception.
> >
> > 2. The fact that this distinction splits the entire universe into two
> > camps -- basically for no reason. There's nothing so brilliantly
> > different about rpm and/or dpkg that a common packaging solution couldn't
> > be devised -- if anyone cared. :)
> >
>
> oh you mean like all the wasted effort at
freedesktop.org trying to come
> up with 'standards' for gnome and kde.
>
> when if we only did gnome, for example, we wouldn't have to waste time
> talking about goofball standards for menu files.
Hey, that's someone's ego you got over there in Germany ;-)
in germany?
The same is true if we were only doing kde.
what're you talking about?
-sv