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- David
- > My point is: I don't really care what the name of the distribution is. I
- > like to know what's going onto my system. I don't have ARMLinux - it
- > won't support my hardware. All I know is that if I wish to examine,
- > and/or use the contents of part of distribution, then I know with
- > absolute certainty (without even thinking about it) how to extract a .tgz
- > and how to control which directory it goes in and so on and that I can
- > trivially create them on any UNIX system.
-
- rpm is available in source form. I believe it compiles on NetBSD for one.
- You know what's in the rpm because there's an option to rpm to tell you.
- Even better, it has a description, and a pgp signature from the author.
- But all this is missing your fundamentally wrong assumption which is that
- a distribution is prepared in order for you to be able to pick it apart
- and use it on an alien system.
-
- > I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with any particular
- > distribution or install system. What I am saying is that a particular
- > benefit of .tgzs is that it is *obvious* what you can do with it.
-
- And I'm saying this is not an advantage.
-
- > PS - Please can we start a comp.dist.tar.advocacy newsgroup?? ;-)
-
- This discussion should certainly not be happening on linux-arm. Maybe
- one of the linux advocacy groups would be better.
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