Re: Softwares sugestion

[Reklaw <nawalker earthlink net>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:09:04 Tim Moore wrote:
> But why would this be better than a package management system? As far as I
> can understand, the only reason people use tarballs anymore is because
> they're used to it and its simpler in some ways (no databases to keep
> consistent, etc). I could be wrong about this reasoning (I really don't
> see any really good reason not to use a package manager, but I may just be
> ignorant) but I would guess that a tarball management system wouldn't be
> preferable in any way to RPM or dpkg.

RPM and debians system(s) have only been successful on GNU/Linux
systems. GNOME's not GNU/Linux only. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong
on any of this.

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