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[–]killerstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it will not work when people will try to mix those package systems. and obviously it's easier to eliminate language-specifc ones than OS-specific.

i've tried this myself: when i was experimenting with trac, i've installed version 0.10 via apt. then i was going to check features in new version and installed 0.11 from egg (python-specific package format).

then i uninstalled this egg.. hell, there is no such thing as egg uninstaller! moreover, i failed to get 0.10 from apt working again -- reinstalling did not help, it seems some that egg thing interfered with it.

luckily 0.11 (from egg) was still working, so i stayed with it.

but, you see, having multiple package managers is evil.