AW: RPM is hard to unpack

[SEJKORA Martin <martin.sejkora@creditanstalt.co.at>]

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>In my opinion, the requirements should be:
>1) That any package can be unpacked without using a specific package
>manager (even if some). It is Ok to require GNU tools for that, such as
>gzip.
>2) That any package can be identified as belonging to a specific
>distribution or as cross-disribution package without using a specific
>package manager.
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I'm fully with you!
IMO the actual practice for the shipment of packages as *.tar.gz or
*.tar.bz2 is better than using *.spm or *.rpm.

bye
Martin Sejkora