Re: Packaging formats

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:05 AM -0500, Matthew C Barry 
<muramas@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> wrote:
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| Packaging is definitely cool, but .deb is LIGHT YEARS ahead of .rpm.  I
| mean, keeping rpm compatibility is... neato.  But... debian packages are
+--->8

Look, folks, we've had this discussion before.

RPM, deb, BSD ports., etc. are all wonderful, but GNOME is not limited to 
those systems.  And NO, requiring J. Random Solaris/Irix/HPUX/etc. user to 
install dpkg/apt or rpm or etc. first won't fly.  Nor will saying "but only 
the Linux users matter", unless *you* want to be marginalized.

.tar.gz is used for a reason.  No, it's not pretty, it's not fancy, it's 
not the Linux version of Windows.  IT IS PORTABLE.

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