RPM non free?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:20:30 -0400
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself at ix.netcom.com> (by way of Douglas J Hunley 
<doug at hunley.homeip.net>) wrote:

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> - From Debian Weekly News:
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>     RPM orphaned and not free anymore? Joey Hess [17]orphaned [18]rpm
>     since the newest version depends on the non-free elfutils library.
>     This makes it impossible for Joey to update the package. Not being
>     able to include rpm in Debian could have far reaching consequences -
>     from problems with the LSB to increased difficulty to run other
>     distributions software on Debian and vice-versa.
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>      17. http://bugs.debian.org/239518
>      18. http://packages.debian.org/rpm
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> RPM support is required by LSB.
> 
> This could be an oversight on the part of Red Hat.  Or it could be a
> strategic move on the part of Red Hat to exclude free distributions
> including Debian and Gentoo, from LSB compliance.

Not Gentoo. It is rpm-free. It uses a different packaging system.

> I sense a great disturbance in the force.

RPM is not indispensable. I have been happy with Gentoo's ebuild system for
quite some time. RPM need not apply.


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