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Re: fwd: [tomsrtbt] More "Tom doesn't like .RPM _or_ .DEB"



Hamish Moffatt
>On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:11:52PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
>>In particular, it would be nice if Tom's rescue disc could pick apart
>>.debs and .rpms. RPM is basically a lost cause, but .debs look feasible;
>>in particular, if the outer file was a tarfile and not an arfile it would
>Why not include ar? It's only 29k on my slink system.

On a 1722k rescue floppy much of which is taken up by essential
infrastructure, that's a _lot_ for a tool you don't expect to use for
anything else.
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