[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[James Devenish]

In message <1067241951.3f9cd1dfa7d26 at webmailtest.iinet.net.au>
on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:05:51PM +0800, sscott at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Quoting Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au>:
> > "I" strive to replace rpm with deb.
> > Whats the difference?
> LSB, decided that RPM was the way to go. 

Having just had a look at LSB, it appears that RPM is a "package
format", not a "package management system" (whereas debs are used for
package management). You think BSDs are archaic (not sure why) but I
think that a lot of other people would say that RPM is clumsy. What is
being argued on this list seems to be differences between package
management.