On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:05:03 +1200 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And the other points you make are true, but don't move me. tar has > become the canonical distribution archive, so proficiency with tar is > pretty much required. cpio seems by your description to still have valid > usages in areas that tar cannot be used, but that's still no excuse to > promote it over tar! Especially to someone who wasn't asking about > cross-architecture transfers! :-) There is no standard for packages in the linux world, but there are a few that vie for that accolade, and rpm must be one of them. isn't rpm based on cpio? (and rpm's perceived problems have nothing to do with cpio, and are largely fixed by putting a layer above it - apt or urpmi for example. just the same as dpkg is improved by apt) (why do i get reminded of indigestion every time i think of urpmi???) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
