[clue-tech] Distro musings

[Matt Gushee]

Collins Richey wrote:

>> You must never have tried to adapt a RedHat package to Caldera <shudder>.
>>
> 
> Probably written from the standpoint (not totally uncommon) that Red
> Hat was the $DEITY and any RPM distro that didn't do things the Red
> Hat way was bent.

Well, at the time I tried Caldera (early '99), RedHat had a number of 
packages that Caldera didn't--in particular it had some packages for 
Japanese support that I needed. And having learned to build and make 
minor mods to SRPMs on RedHat systems (and a couple other RPM distros, 
like TurboLinux, which were very compatible with RedHat), it was a bit 
of a shock to try to go to Caldera and find they had a whole different 
set of macros. Plus, they capitalized their package names, which was 
disturbing to anyone indoctrinated in Unixism.

> And yes, I've had the <shudder> privilege of doing
> exactly that. Interestingl bit of trivia: Caldera was the primary
> developer of the RPM package manager

No kidding! So why isn't it called CPM?

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