Le Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:45:05 +0200, Thomas Bächler  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

> Benol wrote:
>> Usability
>
> Tell me about that, how is foo-1.2.3-4.pac (or similar) more usable than  
> foo-1.2.3-4.pkg.tar.gz. I
> install a package with pacman -S foo or with pacman -A foo<tab>, this is  
> very usable.
>
>> comfort
>
> see above, how would that be comfortable? You usually do not type the  
> extension, so typing it will
> not cause you any discomfort.
>
>> and intuitiveness.
>
> So you think .pac or .foo would be more intuitive? I think .pkg.tar.gz  
> is intuitive: When I look at
> it, I know that the package is a tar.gz archive, I know which tools I  
> can use to examine it. I know
> how I could manipulate it if necessary and it adds a great deal of  
> transparency of the problem, I
> can determine the exact format of an arch package within minutes. The  
> extension just says what it
> is: it's a gzipped compressed tar archive containing a package. How  
> could anything be more intuitive?
>
>> None of them is technical,
>
> none of them is real.
>
>> I did not want to start a flame
>
> and for the record: I am not flaming!
>

Hi all,

/me definitivelly convinced by this :)
-- 
Salutations,

kozaki.dev
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Et puis Linux, c'est bien sympa, mais la personne qui pleure quand ce  
qu'il faut faire est plus compliqué que double cliquer sur une icone,  
comment elle fait ?
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Arch Linux - 0.7.1 "Noodle" also on :
Desktops i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) & Pentium III (Coppermine)
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