On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:33:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri= > > Any particular reason you have Quoted Printable on? Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered standard so I left it that way. > >Do you remember a release of bash that made it in to unstable not long ago?= > > No. I dislike bash and don't use it. Whelp, it kinda broke all of Debian because while YOU don't use it, the system doesn't work without it and a working copy must be present. > >In the same circumstances, would I have been able to do that with a slp > >file? Likely not. Probably not. > > And neither you or I can answer that question. I have found out what the > problem with this thread is. Most people are taking it as a religious > affront. Look, use whatever slings your dingy, alright? But let's keep a > few things grounded in fact. I did look at the package format. I did see how the info was handled. I did see that what I have come to take for granted when working with normal tarballs and with .deb files didn't work. However, I can't see how someone who prefers a tar-based system would want to give up that ability to patch the info the package manager uses either. > 1: SLP is beta, as is the rest of Stampede. How fun was DEB in its infancy. > IIRC DEB was not always an ar archive of tars. I've not been around all that long. > 2: What I am talking about is the ideal that SLP presents, not the technical > nitty gritty. Take that elsewhere. If you want to argue technical nitty > gritty let's remember that I am on the Debian mailing list because, guess > what, I *RUN* Debian. I guess that means, at the core of it, on the day to > day operations, I must agree with the format, huh? This thread is on debian-devel so the technical nitty-gritty seems kinda relevant here. This is my fault and I am sorry everyone. I originally posted a reply early on in this thread also to debian-user because at the time the thread seemed more appropriate. It's ended up crossposted since and has gotten AFAIC more technical. > 3: No one should ever get so religious about any topic that they are > automatically closed to new ideas and ideals. No one. I like the idea of tar vs. ar. I just don't like binary appended data to the tar file because I can't make use of it there without special tools. That's what turned me from rpm.
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