On 30 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: nick >Quoting Svante Signell: nick >> - rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB. nick > nick > I beg your pardon?
RPM is one of the biggest pieces of crap ive seen..i spent 20 minutes working on a redhat5.1 machine(from telnet) and it about drove me MAD, i never appreciated how well dpkg/apt and even the distribution (debian) being so organized into sections until i saw how redhat did it, ALL IN ONE DIRECTORY. rpm was a nice step from .tgz packages but it is the last thing that should be used for distributions in the future. my opinion at least. that machine i worked 20 minutes on i told the guy to wipe it out and install slink, i had his firewall, proxy, ipmasq, DNS, and X configured as well as his machine secured in about 2 hours(that includes downloading some missing packages off the net over 56k) redhat would of taken me days..argh who could use a system like that.. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:30pm up 132 days, 11:24, 3 users, load average: 2.67, 2.40, 1.94