Re: Softwares sugestion

[Tim Moore <tmoore tembel org>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Reklaw wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Oh, I thought RPM at least was intended to be cross-platform.

In any case, it would make more sense to me to devote efforts to making
RPM cross-platform than it would to reinvent the wheel again!

Tim