Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Tim Cook wrote:
>
> > I have thought about (and was suggested by Dr. Caldwell)
> > packaging a preconfigured FreePM including Zope and all
> > additional Products. One for Linux and one for Windows.
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> > Thoughts?
> Regarding to Linux I'd prefer RPMs and DEBs. I personally wouldn't
> infect my system with precompiled tarballs...clip...
>
> I don't know how users think about preconfigured all in one packages
> but from a developer point of few I consider this idea bad.
As a user, I agree. I greatly appreciate rpm, as it keeps a database
of elements and dependencies, and makes installation automatic, but more
important, makes removal easy, complete, and safe.
When I have installed temorary non-rpm packages, I end up with stray irrelevant files
and directories, and when I have installed development packages that were tarballed, I
have
had to reinstall the OS in order to entirely clean up the mess.
I am unable to coment about Debian, but as an end user, I have vowed never to install
a package again that is not rpm'd. If I want unreliability, I can always use
Windows...
DJ
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