I am sorry if this creates a huge thread but I think it was time to bring up this question again. A few months ago people asked if SuSE could switch over to the debian package format. It was mentioned that considerations were made towards/against this. I wonder where we now stand on this. I like to see a switch towards deb being made. I figure with gcc 3.0 being released and probably being used for SuSE 8.0 it would be the perfect time to as well make the packaging switch at the same time. I would welcome this. So far SuSE packages are something created in house and a mystery to the general user as they are not general RedHat packages either. I think switching over to deb would move the packages back into the general user domain and as well prove SuSE was interested in setting/using standards and not contributing to creating special branches of a good which is useless for other(-distro) Linux users. Fact is I like to see some of the special(-distro) package formats out there die and a (one or two) standard(s) appear. With efforts as the LSB moving ahead strongly I just don't see why SuSE should have a special package format. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
In MY opinion linux is about choice. I would like suse to use the Debian packages and RPMs. Of course you can also download the Tar file and compile your own. My 0.02 Dany Allard Purple Shirt wrote:
I am sorry if this creates a huge thread but I think it was time to bring up this question again.
A few months ago people asked if SuSE could switch over to the debian package format. It was mentioned that considerations were made towards/against this. I wonder where we now stand on this.
I like to see a switch towards deb being made. I figure with gcc 3.0 being released and probably being used for SuSE 8.0 it would be the perfect time to as well make the packaging switch at the same time. I would welcome this. So far SuSE packages are something created in house and a mystery to the general user as they are not general RedHat packages either. I think switching over to deb would move the packages back into the general user domain and as well prove SuSE was interested in setting/using standards and not contributing to creating special branches of a good which is useless for other(-distro) Linux users. Fact is I like to see some of the special(-distro) package formats out there die and a (one or two) standard(s) appear. With efforts as the LSB moving ahead strongly I just don't see why SuSE should have a special package format.
mk
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Purple Shirt wrote:
A few months ago people asked if SuSE could switch over to the debian package format. It was mentioned that considerations were made towards/against this. I wonder where we now stand on this.
AFAIK there are plans to make rpm the package standard in LSB, so a _switch_ is not likely, I guess. ---J.T.U. -- /==================================================================\ | Jon Trygve Utne |e-mail: jont@ii.uib.no | | Basis Infrastruktur | Jon.Utne@mi.uib.no | | DnB-IT | Jon.Trygve.Utne@dnb.no | | Tlf(work) +47 55 22 35 88 |"Smith & Wesson: The original| | URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/~jont | point and click interface" | \==================================================================/
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