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

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