"apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?

[John Summerfield]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Steve Searle wrote:
> 
>> Around 10:57am on Sunday, November 25, 2007 (UK time), Robert P. J. Day scrawled:
>>
>>>> But your book is probably a bit out of date, ...
>>> 2007.
>> What is the book and who is the author?
> 
> "The Linux Programmer's Toolbox," by John Fusco, which, other than
> that oddity, seems to be a very good book.

It's a pretty basic error. I'd be looking for more.

http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0304.html
http://www.hcw.be/p.aspx?p=G9939

Hah!
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/08/book-review-the-linux-programmers-toolbox/
Cites an error in the book relating to query tables, then has this text 
(which might be the reviewer's), Try this example:

rpm -qa --qf '%vendorn' | sort | uniq -c
      1 Adobe Systems, Incorporated
    12 (none)
      1 RealNetworks, Inc
838 Red Hat, Inc.
      1 Sun Microsystems

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-linux-programmers-toolbox.html
http://browse.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781585672097&itm=2

Generally, the reviews are pretty good.

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John

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