RE: [TCLUG:12193] newbie distros (was: Re: [TCLUG:12143] hello)

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

Is there any reason that RPMS are used by RedHat, Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux
( I know RH invented RPM so that's a given)

and DEBs are used by Debian and .....

I dunno.  I wanna know.  Is there any technical advantage of one over the
other?   i.e are debs always precompiled?  sometimes?  are there source debs
and debs?

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Adam Maloney [SMTP:adam@iexposure.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:30 PM
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> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:12193] newbie distros (was: Re: [TCLUG:12143]
> hello)
> 
> and slack packages are easy...and BSD's system is...uh...very nice.
> 
> 
> Scott wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Schlough, Mark wrote:
> > 
> > >       Is there a techincal comparison to the debian packaging system
> and
> > > the RPM packages?  I don't understand the difference, is anyone able
> to
> > > explain what they are?
> > 
> >      Technically, .deb's are whacked and .rpm's are screwy.
> > 
> > Scott
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