[cutted] >> IMO the actual practice for the shipment of packages as *.tar.gz or >> *.tar.bz2 is better than using *.spm or *.rpm. > >Then a typical user cannot install them and no distribution can manage them >for removal and you might as well run windows 3.1 When "a typical user" is an End-User and not an SysAdmin then it is IMO no harm, because such an user may not install a package by default. bye Martin Sejkora