[wellylug] Microsoft At WellyLUG last night.

[Martin Bähr]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:58:26AM +1200, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> > And when a Debian-based distro makes the same decision, and introduces 
> > significantly different components from the 'core' debian, resulting in
> > a problems installing those packages on a vanilla Debian - will you 
> > accuse Debian of 'locking you in'?
> Incidentally, I have heard that this is happening, with .debs built for Ubuntu
> not always being compatible with standard Debian ...

because they depend on different versions of dependant packages.
it is just like a debian sarge package not being installable on woody.

ians argument completely misses that point.
debian packages just need a simple rebuild to update those versioned
dependancies.

the problems in the rpm world more likely come from different distros
putting files in different places, something that can't even be fixed
with a rebuild.

lsb is attempting to solve that.

greetings, martin.
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