The return of the Mer project

Posted Oct 4, 2011 13:33 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: The return of the Mer project by sebas
Parent article: The return of the Mer project

At the root of all geek religious wars, be it vi vs emacs, BSD vs Linux, RPM vs deb, is that the alternatives fought over are different in details, but almost exactly the same in terms of functionality.

The return of the Mer project

Posted Oct 5, 2011 4:20 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

It can get a bit silly, but some of the details can sort of matter.

As for the deb/rpm case, I'd say the formats and related tools have done some learning from each other, at least, which is useful.

But yeah the froth is probably eternal.