Re: what is already there?

To: debian-ppc@lists.debian.org (Debian ppc)
Subject: Re: what is already there?
From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Oct 1997 22:35:41 +0000
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In-reply-to: joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:12:24 +0100"
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joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze) writes:

> Opposite to RedHat Debian doesn't use proprietery software.

Be fair.  a) neither dpkg or rpm are proprietary, they are both free
software.  b) afaik, .rpm files are cpio (a POSIX standard) and can be
extracted with cpio, and a tiny shell script to get rid of some rpm
header gunk.

-- 
James


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