Mihai Bisca wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:
>
> > > [Ah-oh, I'm probably going to start a "distribution" war with this, but
> > > quite frankly I don't care. :) Point is that slugware is now a
> > > historical fossil that has no place except for very specific purposes
> > > as a hacker's installation.]
> > Slackware still has its uses. For anyone who's used to it, it can be
> > annoying to move to a distribution which stuffs about with buggy libc
> > libraries and strange directories all over the place.
>
> I agree. Also, I hate rpm and dpkg. These tools are too restrictive.
> Keeping the packages tar.gzipped is simple and effective and gives the
> user more freedom, in true Unix tradition. Debian takes forever to
> install and RedHat is probably going to become the Windoze of the Linux
> world. It fucks up even the prompter... :-)
I agree too , but there is something good with rpm : they provide a
rpm2targz so you can install packages easily from sources and do not
have any problem.
My Slackware works fine and I can install packages from anywhere they
come from. I also installed RedHat , but I erased the partition , it
is much easier to install the packages I need from tar.gz . It may
take one or two more minutes to install , but you don't have to spend
days to solve some stupid library problem.
Many people want on their linux system the same they had on Windows ,
I do think it is pure masochism.
