Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV
On 23 May 1998 05:55:40 -0400, Bonard B. Timmons III wrote:
>So how does their package management work then? I don't understand
>what the disadvantage to .deb is besides that it is a new file format,
>especially since there are such nice tools (dpkg) with which to
>manipulate it.
Like any other command line package manager. That isn't the point
though. The point is that with SLP one could, theoretically, get rid of TGZ
archives for those (Slackware) people who don't want or need a package
manager. It isn't what SLP does inside its distribution, it is what it does
outside of it.
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