RE: [TCLUG:15263] Reading Red Hat rpms

[nryberg@uspsoig.gov]

And some others of us don't have the time to compile from the source code,
and fix the problems that seem to inevitably come up.  Personally, I haven't
yet had a problem with a rpm.  Does that make me a techno-weenie?  Yup.  But
at least the programs I install work.

- Nick

>some of us still do that today...

>... grab the tgz and laugh at package formats.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Scott wrote:

>      If for some reason you do need to look at a program's source
> on a winfroze box, why even play with that godawful rpm crap?  Just
> do what we did back in the olden days (when men were men and package
> formats were laughed at) and grab the tgz.