haha. if you dont mind me asking, how old are you? On 10/27/06, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: > > "Mikhail Skobov" <russianhippie666 at gmail.com> wrote: > > so you're saying to not use rmp or w/e and use the tar way? > > No, Mikhail. Stick w/rpm and the other tools that SUSE uses to > install software. He was simply ranting at the general concept of > munged library naming that some distributions use for their packages, > some complaint about default search paths (which is overcome with > LD_LIBRARY_PATH), and a general snipe at developers that hard-code > path names in their applications. Nothing really to do with rpm, > dpkg, or tarballs. > > rpm's, deb's, and package-style tarballs all contain binary data, meta > data on where to install it on the system, and what prerequisites are > needed before the software can work. rpm's are cpio archives with a > meta-data header. deb's are ar archives containing two tarballs and a > file or two: control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, and version. Slackware > tarballs were... Well, you get the picture. > > Eventually, someone will say, "Why doesn't everyone do what NeXT does, > and by virtue what Mac OS X does, by shipping self-contained software > packages?" Someone will say that what we have is good enough. > Someone else will state that LSB will save us all. Etc. > > Horses will be beaten (or is it eaten), and eventually, someone will > state someone else is a Nazi; the thread will have officially ended. > > -- > Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ > assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061027/377ee48b/attachment.htm