apt-rpm supported?

Michael P. Soulier michael_soulier at mitel.com
Sun Nov 9 02:38:23 UTC 2003


On 07/11/03 Panu Matilainen did say:

> The deal here is that apt considers every "provides" as a package (a
> "virtual package" in apt terminology). As long as there's only one package 
> providing something it automatically installs that, otherwise it makes you 
> choose one from available variants.

    Yes, which in my opinion is one of the things making apt superior to
yum, and I'm very surprised that apt-rpm isn't among the supported tools
already. 

    Mike

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