Re: Softwares sugestion

[Reklaw <nawalker earthlink net>]

I, personally, was taking my stance from the LACK of binary RPMs for
most systems other than GNU/Linux on i386. As for SRPMs, I think
most people, including me, don't see a benifit over tarballs.

Maybe that is something RedHat and Debian should make clearer.

In the meantime, I going to shut my big mounth.
(And the crowd rejoiced!)
Reklaw.

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:38:25 Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Tim Moore writes:
> >Oh, I thought RPM at least was intended to be cross-platform.
> 
> You've been misinformed.
> 
> I don't know where people get the idea that RPM is not cross-platform,
> and I don't know why they spread the rumor without substantiation, but
> a look through the archives of either this list or of rpm-list would
> easily show that rpm not only is intended to be cross-platform, it is
> a successful cross-platform product used to manage software on pretty
> much every Unix system, and people have even (horrors!) ported it to
> NT without much trouble.
> 
> michaelkjohnson
> 
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