> It wasn't about, for example, dpkg vs rpm No, it totally was. APT vs. nothing was a big deal, but RPM per se had a lot of mistakes. Debian also had massively

> It wasn't about, for example, dpkg vs rpm No, it totally was. APT vs. nothing was a big deal, but RPM per se had a lot of mistakes. Debian also had massively better standard tooling around conffiles, diversions, alternatives, etc. They also had publicly-published packaging standards so even out-of-distro debs were often pretty good, while third-party RPMs were a garbage fire.