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> DEB packages are more widely available than RPM. The Debian repositories are larger. This is up to the repository. If Debian choose RPM it would be as large
by lucasoshiro 2y ago
> DEB packages are more widely available than RPM. The Debian repositories are larger.
This is up to the repository. If Debian choose RPM it would be as large as it already is
- timbit42 2y agoBut it didn't and it isn't. Debian created DEB three years before RPM was created. Starting out, RPM didn't even support dependencies. I got into Linux before RPM so Debian was the obvious choice. I never understood why RPM was created.
- ta1243 2y agoThe reason I chose debian in the first place was because of the superiority of apt-get and debian/rules over getting random things from rpmfind.net I thought redhat distros later introduced yum as the "apt" equivalent?