> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> > As it happens, I don't believe .rpm is inferior to .tar.gz at all, but
> > as that has no relevance to Alex's stupidity, I'll say no more on that
> > subject.
>
<snip>
> RPM is a format that makes it difficult for those of us unwilling to
> download and use the rpm software to get at the packages - especially
> those that are only available in rpms. For many of us that don't use or
> are not interested in RPMs, that does lock us out of that segment - and
> hence, leaves us with the distinct impression that those authors would
> have us go to all that twaddle to get at the sources.
Um, didn't someone post a script to convert them to tarballs?
Matthew D. Pitts
mpitts@suite224.net
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