Fedora has dpkg. Debian has rpm. Nothing new here...

Posted May 17, 2015 16:46 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Fedora has dpkg. Debian has rpm. Nothing new here... by pr1268
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Not quite. Fedora doesn't support third party kernel modules in the repository, no alternative init systems, no alternative libc etc. Some of it banned by policy. Others simply because noone has shown up with the interest and commitment to do the work involved but Debian repository tends to be more all encompassing than Fedora is and that is partly by design.

Fedora has dpkg. Debian has rpm. Nothing new here...

Posted May 18, 2015 11:25 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, I was being facetious. But your comment had me thinking about how I've historically (past 10-15 years or so) thought of Debian as being the more restrictive distro in this regard.

I guess things aren't always what they seem...

Fedora has dpkg. Debian has rpm. Nothing new here...

Posted May 18, 2015 18:34 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Debian is more restrictive about trademarks (see Iceweasel and friends).