On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 03:16, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 12:04, El Gringo ( aka Guillaume Rousse ) a �crit : > > Ainsi parlait Michael Scherer : > > > Very effective, everybody who read Linux Magazine France know that > > > apt-get is so cool .... > > > > http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html for instance ? > > Yes, exactly what I was thinking :-) > Very good intro, that is what make me discover urpmi. > > > > Another thing to do is that we should stop to say that rpm can be find on > > > rpmfind.net. Almost each time people go on rpmfind, they download a rpm > > > for another distro, and, when it don't work, they say that rpm is bad. > > > > I wholeheartly agree. Users see rpms as just another archive format, and > > completly miss the integration work behind. > > What about using a different extension ? > Something as mrpm ?
Three reasons not to... 1. Cross distro RPMS... I do package a ton of this for companies. 2. RPM is the LSB standard not deb not tgz and definitely not mprm 3. RPM is more than an extension.. A lot more. The more I learn about it the more I'm amazed at what it does. ( or rather what I can leverage) James
