On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:40 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > >(Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a > >tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all* > >the information in the former with standard tools, whereas the latter > >requires you to whip out the ol' C compiler if you don't have the > >appropriate packager handy) > > If you don't have the packager, who cares about the other data?
You can still read the depends/conflicts stuff. This is handy when packages are named what they are, which doesn't always happen..
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