Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 1999 22:12:49 +0000 ( ) | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes |
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I don't see this as an issue of RPM vs. TGZ... Up till now kernel developers have standardized on tgz for distribution. If Linus wants to change that the RPM, he's free to, even though I think that TGZ is the right way to distribute this source. Inconsistancy is horrible. No one wants to have to use tgz for some packages and srcprms for others. Lets just stay consistent! As long as the kernel is distributed in a gzipped tar file, so should everything else relating to the kernel.
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 06:42:55AM -0500, Andrew Kieschnick wrote: > > Also, RPM isn't exactly proprietary to RedHat - there are other > > distributions using it, and its under the GPL. I fail to see how anyone is > > being "locked out". > > it's just not right. it sucks. every package is in *.tar.gz format. if other > distributon makers want to repackage it, fine. > > what's the next main stream distribution in two years time ? cool. another > way of packing things up. it's really of no use at all. > > -- > Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. > http://www.xs4all.nl/~bengel | Use your real e-mail address > Linux 2.0.34 on an i586/64 MB | on Usenet. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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