On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, fooler wrote:
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> if your honor pls, you are not looking for a bigger picture because
> you are *only* focusing one of the flavors of unix which is linux.
> there are package managers in other unixes but still the bottom line
> is and the *most basic* and efficient way of distributing and
> installing software is the source code which is you really know what
> is really happening going on.
The tarball-vs-package debate is fruitless. Have you seen FreeBSD's
packaging system? they use tarballs. BUT they support dependencies,
manifests, etc using their tarball system.
RPM is nothing more than a CPIO archive (VERY similar to tarball) with a
header attached. Try dissecting an RPM (by using 'dd' to strip off the
header). You'll find that the remaining part can be installed using cpio.
So what's the fuss? personally I prefer packages (the dependencies and
seamless updating, etc, is handy) but if someone uses tarballs, let
'em! on a LOT of other UNIXes it's the only way, so best to be familiar
with it.
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