Fwd: First stable of Mageia is out!

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Sadiq Saif <sadiq-KzRxrKfdH+/c+919tysfdA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by a RPM system being incompatible

Well, rpm corresponds to dpkg, but that's only providing coverage of
the shallowest part of "package management," namely:
 - Building a package, and
 - Installing it.

The tooling that surrounds dpkg goes *WAY* further than that.  See
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/>
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