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If Red Hat had supported .deb packages maybe packaging wouldn't be such a pain in the ass and we wouldn't have a .tar, .deb and a .rpm for every program. There

by ikt 13y ago

If Red Hat had supported .deb packages maybe packaging wouldn't be such a pain in the ass and we wouldn't have a .tar, .deb and a .rpm for every program. There are a lot of things in linux land that don't make sense, I think picking on Canonical for choosing to do what they want as opposed to all the others who are choosing to do what they want, is very un linux like.

ginko 13y ago
The difference is that the choice of package system is completely in the domain of open source software. Proprietary drivers require support by hardware vendors. If we had solid, feature-complete open source graphics drivers this wouldn't be an issue.