deb "wasn't already there" to be used.

deb "wasn't already there" to be used.

Posted Feb 22, 2007 18:00 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (subscriber, #774)
In reply to: deb "wasn't already there" to be used. by pizza
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

> So while technically Debian/dpkg was publically available before RHL/RPM, dpkg "wasn't already there" to be used when RHL1.0/RPP (and PMS) was released, nor while RPM was being developed.

I really don't know whether RPP should count (i.e., how sophisticated it was), especially given that RPM wasn't backward compatible to it (then you can also count the primitive package management system used by Debian in 1993 and still get a one year off).

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