they should just bite the bullet.

they should just bite the bullet.

Posted Feb 19, 2007 13:02 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: they should just bite the bullet. by drag
Parent article: Fedora 7 release delayed

I don't mean that they should _base_ their system on Debian or worry about 100% compatibility or use deb files themselves or anything. Just use their packages for the basis for creating Fedora-specific packages.

If you don't use the Debian philosophy of system organization - then what's the point ? It's actually easier to convert Fedora to .deb then to convert it to Debian-style layout. But if you don't use Debian's layout, if you don't use Debian's tools - then what's the point ?

They fact remains: RedHat/Fedora is as old as Debian, it was developed in parallel and while it borrows ideas from Debian (and Debian borrows ideas from RedHat!) it's way too late to reinvent the whole system. May it'll be better to abandon the Fedora/RedHat development and switch to gNewSense, but to abandon the Fedora and create something new Debian-based instead... what's the point again ?

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