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On Wednesday 26 May 2004 06:23 am, Gao Long wrote:

> But if someone piled the BSD into a set of RPM
> packages , then we can just install  a FreeBSD , even use a
> grub bootloader , and making RPMs of a base system is not a
> hard work.

Except that there is absolutely no reason to use RPM! We already have 
our own package format that does everything RPM does and more. And 
without several of the disadvantages.

Converting Anaconda's Perl scripts to use the pkg tools instead of rpm 
should be a rather trivial. The major problems are elsewhere.

-- 
David Johnson
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