On Fri 12 Jan 2007 20:19:40 NZDT +1300, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > While rpm doesn't enforce this policy either, having had it since day 1 > > meant there was never any deviation. > > Rubbish. As long as there are people involved, it can be cocked up.
I've yet to see one such cockup from the distros I've used extensively. > But you need RPM, or a tool that understands RPM format to extract the > source and patches, which is pretty inconvenient. After a very easy apt-get alien, the "inconvenience" is a call to alien to put things into a format basic tools can handle. ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
