Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I guess the best way to avoid confusion then is to refer
> to the installpkg-able file specifically as a Slackware
> tarball or Slackware package.
"Slackware package" is the usual usage. You just have to trust to
people to realise that it's not just a bare tarball, but has Slackware
metadata in it. Serendipitously, though, those who don't realise that
can still use the package as if it _were_ just a tarball, by ignoring
the metadata.
> But the .tgz vs. tar.gz convention should hold though.
My recollection is that ".tgz" is just a workaround to allow DOS/Windows's
lame filetyping to work more-or-less correctly.
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