[plug] Distro Wars

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Bradley Browne wrote:
> Can't I just install APT on RedHat and have the 'best' of both worlds.

No. It uses various features of the .deb format.
If you installed all your software with APT, you'd have a Debian system - 
that's prety much the definition of a distro.
Redhat are working on .rpm to make it possible for an RPM-based clone of
APT to be written in the future

-Greg