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Shuttleworth: Consistent Packaging

“A long, long time ago, packaging was an exciting idea. There
were disputes over style and process, there was innovation. There
were reasons to prefer .deb over .rpm over emerge and it’s binary
packages…

“Today, these differences are just a hindrance. The fact that
there are so many divergent packaging systems in the free software
world (and I include the various *bsd’s) is a waste of time and
energy…”

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