> Alex,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex Buell [mailto:alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:27 AM
> > To: Chris Ricker
> > Cc: Linux kernel
> > Subject: Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
>
> > Furthermore, essential files that are meant to be part of
> > Linux shouldn't be distributed in a format proprietary to RedHat. It's
> fine
> > if they use RPM on their distributions but DO NOT LOCK the rest of us
> > OUT!
>
> It's not a proprietary format. It's Open Source. Anyone can download the
> source and play with it in the usual manner.
>
> You just need to install the "rpm" commmand, in the same manner that you
> need
> to install "tar" and "gunzip" to deal with .tar.gz archives.
>
> It's hardly evil.
Nope it isn't. But a base-install of most distributions doesn't contain
the rpm-command. But it DOES contain tar, gzip, etc. Right?
It's a silly argument, really, I think. Everyone knows what a .tar.gz
archieve is, thus it'd be most convenient to use that format.
RPM is a nice package-standard, but so is the debian package-system, etc.
Oh well. I hope this won't turn into the same kind of argument that the
RMS-thingie (I won't blame any particular person here, though, I just
think it's gone far beyond what's really sane...)
/David Weinehall
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