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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: starting to write a KDE auto-installer
From:       Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date:       2001-08-23 20:31:07
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Op dinsdag 21 augustus 2001 23:38, schreef Nick Betcher:
> How long did it take for Connectiva (or whoever did it) to port apt to rpm?

Not important anymore see below.

> I don't think I'm that prepared to side track and add support for other
> distributions in Apt. 

As connectiva made apt working with rpm as an open source project, it is not 
needed to develop it for other (linux) distributions.  It needs to be 
implemented by the other distributions.  If so it will make it easier to 
right a kinstaller, see below.

> Once again, I rest my case with apt and hopefully
> everyone will see and understand that since I'm new to programming I can't
> re-write apt. Mabey if someone helped me, but of course I've "been there
> and done that".

underneath an excerpt from mail/explanation I received from someone who 
implemented apt-rpm at suse:

<qoute>
Anyway I hope that SuSE will change/support APT. Many of the broken
packages that went to their FTP server wouldn't have made it there if they
had used APT. It does much more dependency checking than RPM itself.

> I wunder as rpm has been selected by Linux Standard Base team as standard 
> package tool, and not apt-get.  With this apt code around rpm it
> remains rpm, but get the advantages of apt isn't it?  

Well - apt-get is not really a replacement for rpm. Instead apt-get uses
the underlying package format (rpm/dpkg) and adds features like dependency
resolution. So rpm/dpkg is still needed anyway. In fact I don't mind
which one a distribution uses, but I'd like to see a unique interface to
package handling. And AFAIK APT is the only one supporting the 2 big
package formats for Linux.

I think the LSB does not state RPM as default package tool (though the
only mentioned one is RPM).
</qoute>

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Richard Bos
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