Re: RH and GNOME
> > 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.
IIRC, RedHat uses a proprietory (If `Open Source') cpio of their very
own.
There already IS a unifyed package format.. as standard as they come, and
absolutely free of inter-distribution disputes.
program.source.tar.gz.
-Kysh
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