Re: Why RPMs?

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Michael Fulbright wrote:
> 
> dusk@smsi-roman.com said:
> > Why did they put the spec info in a . file (i.e. invisible to normal
> > browsing)?  I've been looking all over for that very info, unaware
> > that it was just a 'ls -a' away.  Is that normal?
> 
> They arent in files called '.spec', thats just the extension they have.
> 
> Look in gnome-core.spec, for example.

Yes, I did misunderstand.  But I don't remember running across
that gnome-core.spec file in the regular tar.gz...  Maybe I just
missed it.  I would assume the .spec files exist in all forms of
the packages.

I'll hafta check when I get home...

John