> 
> I just find it interesting that RedHat is making everyone upgrade to a
> new version of RPM when they plan to move to an entirely different
> package format in the 8.x series (though maybe I should keep quiet --
> that will still be a year and a half or two years in the future, and
> there is always the possibility that it just won't happen).  From what I
> understand, the new format will be a sort of über-package, which will be
> used by pretty much everybody (merging the .deb and .rpm camps..  Dunno

	Not sure if this will be a good thing or not.  There will be much
	resistance to it I imagine.

> about the Slackwareians, though ;-)

	Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's
	overly complicated vision of the world.  Personally, I love Slacks
	packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from
	source.

Gabe

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Gabe Turner				       |  	   X-President,
UNIX Systems Administrator,		       | Assoc. for Computing Machinery
U of M Supercomputing Institute for	       |    Univerisity of Minnesota
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu

"Ya lousy bum!"
		- Muddy Mudskipper in "Stimpy's Big Day"
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