IMHO that isn't enough of a warrant for it to be in [community]. If we want to take into consideration such a reasoning, then akin to what danimoth mentioned, we should see a few other tools in the repo too. Furthermore, 27 and 33 only barely pass as "popular".

Well in any case, if a TU wants, he gets.

On 06/04/2008, RedShift <redshift@pandora.be> wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
Hi TU's,

I was wondering what peoples opinions are about putting rpm/dpkg in [community].  They both have a descent number of votes (27 & 33) so people obviously find them useful.  Does anyone have objections about their "unArchness" (it is a real word, honest!)?  It is what has stopped me moving dpkg so far...

Allan



As far as I am concerned, rpm, dpkg, etc... are just pieces of software. I see no reason why they shouldn't be included in community. It would even be an advantage, you could install distributions that use dpkg or rpm from Arch Linux.

Glenn