On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:56:46PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> No. RPMs are used by a few linux distributions - RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE,
> Trustix, Connectiva etc. Some others use .debs - Debian. Still others
> stick to tarballs (sometimes specially archived) - Slackware. *BSD also
> use tarballs, IIRC.
tarballs for packages have the disadvantage of not having an uncompressed
header (which rpms do have). http://www.openpackages.org/ is trying to
solve that.
One of the proposals was to use .zip - which does have an uncompressed
header.
-Arun
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