Re: fwd: [tomsrtbt] More "Tom doesn't like .RPM _or_ .DEB"
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:09:38AM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
>> Hamish Moffatt
>> >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.
>Then check the code for dpkg-deb, in the dpkg source. I'm sure that you can
>dpkg-deb is 36k on my system. If stripped down, I'm sure it could get as small
>as 20k (maybe even smaller).
If 29k is a lot for 'ar', 20k is a lot for something that won't even
do arbitary arfiles (would it?)
There is good news, however; Tom Oehser has managed to make 'awk'
extract arfiles...
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