On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:58:09AM +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2036, Robert Haehnel wrote about, Re: [Re: slackware or redhat?]:
> > My personal opinion is Slackware is easier to configure, and provides better
> > documentation. Also installing and removing the .tgz packages is more user
> > friendly (using pkgtool), but RH has more packages out there that can be
> > installed using rpm, and you cannot always get those rpms converted to .tgz
> > and installed in slackware (maybe there has been some improvements there by
> > now).
> Are you saying that rpm2tgz does not work for you.???
> I've never had a problem with it.
I think some of the newer rpms and using bz2 internally. That
could be one source of problems...
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Mike
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