On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:34:16PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:20:29 +0200 Carsten Lohrke > wrote: > | On Thursday 18 May 2006 20:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | >It's kinda like this: > | > | Stop making such odd and wrong comparisons. The package manager is > | part of what defines a distribution, choosing a shell is the users > | choice. If you want to make the package manager matter of choice, > | start your own distribution. > > How many package managers does Debian have? What about Fedora? They all support the exact same format. You're changing the format, dropping what you dislike- they also support the same installed pkgs backend last I looked, again, not the case for paludis. Better example please, because they're doing what paludis *should* be doing. ~harring