On Friday 25 Jul 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:

>
>       rpm some_option pkgname.rpm
>
> _without_ installing the package.

Yes, indeed.  rpm --queryformat "fields" can display any field from the 
rpm package w/o installing it.

> If that is the case, then this would be a good feature to recommend
> to the "dpkg" maintainers.

Hopefully, the ubuntu will push this feature.

-- 
Arun Khan
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