Re: RH and GNOME
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Kysh Dragon 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.
>
> 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.
That's not a package format, is it?
Can I automatically handle dependencies?
Can I easily uninstall or upgrade?
I'm not saying that .tar.gz's are hard to deal with - I'm sure most of us
use them all the time. But they're not package formats, by any means.
Jules
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