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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationUntz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationPosted Jan 26, 2011 14:09 UTC (Wed) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by elanthis Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
> There's no noteworthy difference between dpkg and rpm. They are
> functionally equivalent in just about every important way.
Nope. dpkg had dependencies on packages, whereas rpm has dependencies on libraries/programs. Thus rpm needs a database to look up which package contains a dependency, whereas dpkg does not.
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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 14:50 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Actually, RPM has _both_ kinds of dependencies. Both listing filenames, and package/program-names.
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