Someone explain this to me. All this seems like a convoluted mess. What's the advantage here?
The advantage is that you can use standard commands to install/remove packages form the system. dpkg/rpm are not standard on a GNU system, ln/rm are. It also simplifies life for people who wish to write a front-end for installation/removal of a package, since they can just use the normal POSIX system calls to do this without the need for some special library. _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
