Alex> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Chris Ricker wrote:
>> Furthermore, don't you think you're being just a tad bit petulant?
>> It's in RPM because the author (Stephen Tweedie, I think) chose to
>> do it that way. "He who writes the code gets to make the rules."
>> It's not like he posted it in rot-13, uuencoded, and then binhex4
>> or something absurd like that--rpm is a fairly standard Linux file
>> format, particularly given that he's a RH employee.
Alex> I have to grumble about things like this because there are many
Alex> of us who don't use RedHat and wouldn't know what RPM is or even
Alex> *WANT* to use it!
Alex> Furthermore, essential files that are meant to be part of Linux
Alex> shouldn't be distributed in a format proprietary to RedHat. It's
Alex> fine if they use RPM on their distributions but DO NOT LOCK the
Alex> rest of us OUT! I have a number of bitches about RedHat too but
Alex> this isn't the place or the time for these (take it to slashdot
Alex> =)
rpm2cpio
Now, can we get back to kernel development which is what this list is
about.
Jes
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