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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
RPM has a more convenient dependency model, and relies on actual files instead of packages. Also, it is the standard Linux format, unlike DEB.
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Somehow the concept of a "standard" Linux format for packages is more than a little humourous. RPM, Deb, PUP & PET, pkg.tar.xz, LZM plus all the others that came and went in the various distributions I've played with over the last 30 years since I first booted Linux around Nov. 1991.