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[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, David A. Bandel<david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:56, Lonni J Friedman<netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any distro that is still using tarballs as its default packaging
>> mechanism is a dinosaur.
>
> OK, this response is just ignorant.

This from the guy who still goes off on tirades about Redhat when he's
not used it in years?

>
> So Slackware uses tarballs.  Inside the tarballs are binaries and
> configuration files and more.  You get what you need.
>
> RH (and derivatives) use .rpm files.  Inside the rpm file (basically a
> relabelled cpio file) are binaries and configuration files and more.
> You get what you need.
>
> So, basically, any distro still distributing binaries is a dinosaur?
>
> Lonnie, your mother should have taught you better manners.

You stay classy Dave.



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