Re: [Plug] Distritubtion Question

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

I personaly don't think so.  I've done a simple litle os project, and use
the cross platform tar.gz source archive as the base.  Once I've got this,
it's easy for me to crete an rpm - based on the source archive.  The
rpm isn't really anything other than convienience for those who don't want
to futz with the source archives -- or for those who want to be able to 
maintain it through a package manager.

I'd assume that doing a .deb, or other type of package runs along
the same lines.

k

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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Alexander John Batyi wrote:

> > Slackware has become (IMHO) an unmanagable disaster.  After all this time,
> > it's still libc5 based.  No real package management to speak of (No folks,
> > tar and gzip don't constitute package management).
> 
> Not to argue but I prefer tar gzip packages but only because I am
> used to that in the Unix world.  We build BNews up to 2.11.19
> using tarfiles and most of the rest of the internet evolved that way
> and not just OS specific packages or distribution specific.  This stuff
> compiled and ran on all the popular *nixes.  I get the point about ease
> of use but was just thinking about the tried and true cross OS
> stuff that I am used to.  Will that all go away because distribution
> oriented packages need to be maintained for each OS/dist?
> 
> 
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