As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Tuesday 28 June 2005 15:25, Joerg Barfurth wrote: > Hi, > > Freek wrote: > > it is really untolerable to only have RPM packages, because admins want > > to relocate them where they want. > > As others have mentioned: RPM supports relocating packages - and our > packages are relocatable. > > > Further: not anybody has or can use RPM. > > RPM was chosen, because it is the most standard installer there is for > Linux - it is available in any LSB-compliant distro. > > If you don't want to use RPMs, you can use tools like alien or rpm2cpio > to install software from RPMs without going through rpm. > > Additionally the packaging part of our build system is flexible and > extensible. It has been adapted to various other package formats, among > them debs. You may be able to get packages in <your-favorite-format> > somewhere on the web. > > > This is a major step backwards. > > Compared to our old, hard to maintain, homegrown 2-step installer that > integrates with no existing package manager? There are many people who > see this differently. > > Ciao, Joerg
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