* John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010401 17:30]:
> rpms are still to be preferred; I for one would prefer beta rpms to
> none as it makes management of the package so much easier.
To provide the opposite viewpoint: I for one much prefer tarballs for
programs not distributed by my OS vendor because I can ensure very
simply that all the files unpacked wind up in /usr/local/<package> where
they may suffer the savage of rm -rf /usr/local/<package>.
An rpm I always wonder what the hey the various scripts are doing, where
files wind up, etc.
(Of course, for software distributed by my vender, the packages+scripts
way is far superior to tarballs. I love .debs. :)
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