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deb vs. rpm vs. gem

Posted Mar 10, 2004 14:29 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: deb vs. rpm vs. gem by stuart
Parent article: Rock Linux 2.0 released

Choice is good - but reinventing the wheel for n. time seems like a waste of time. Of course, if .gem has features that .rpm or .deb or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or .pkg or ... doesn't have, then it might be useful. I can see other ways to prevent the installation of non-distribution packages.

Bye,NAR

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