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Re: RH and GNOME



On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 02:16:06PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Plus of course, the little-publicized (outside of Debian) fact that .deb's
> can be extracted on any Un*x system, while .rpm's can't.

    Why can't RPMs?  In my discussion on colm about RPM vs. other packaging
formats they pointed out that RPM is cpio which is on all unix platforms
just like ar and tar are.  Wow, that was a tongue twister.


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