>
> My big problem with RPM-based distros is that the RPM packaging system
> has been a huge thorn in the RedHat developer's side for years. Their
> management always made other things a priorities until a group of the
> developers got so fed up with it that they started Foresight.
>
> That is, the folks most familiar with RPM-based distros think the whole
> RPM-based packaging system stinks and should have been replaced in-whole
> years ago.
I'm pretty sure that's where Bill Reynolds aka Texstar of PCLinuxOS come
down on the subject. When he decided to strike out on his own with
PCLinuxOS, it remained an rpm system based on Mandriva, but he went with
apt-for-rpm/Synaptic as the default GUI package manager.
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Mark Warner
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