[ Thanks to Matt H.
for this link. ]
“I’ll admit it; the concept of finding a road that meets in the
middle with regards to RPM and DEB packages has crossed my mind
before. And yet in the end, I decided to let it go. After all, I’m
not all that convinced that it will ever happen anyway.“Then I came across this piece about something that Mark
Shuttleworth, the person behind the Ubuntu movement, had written,
and I was intrigued. He points out that in many ways, the
differences between the two packaging formats are more hindrance
than help to the end user. Could this really be true? Ah, that is
the real question, I suspect…”
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