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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Linux Standard Base
Date: Tue Jul 10 00:01:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010710000006.I29013@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01071008521301.00552@localhost>; from ermak@netvision.net.il on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:52:13AM +0300

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:52:13AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:

> I still don't think this should ever be done. Can anyone give me an example 
> of a situation where installing an RPM is better than all the alternatives? 

For binary CDs of commercial software, RPM version 3 is the most
widely-accepted packaging format.  So it makes sense for a lot of people making
binaries for Linux, I suppose.  The Amiga SDK uses RPM to install.

For Gentoo Linux packages, I don't know.  I've never used the RPM-building
option.  It was one of the things that Achim added to Portage.  Achim?

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-09 10:37 [gentoo-dev] Linux Standard Base Luis Ortega
2001-07-09 11:49 ` Dan Armak
2001-07-09 13:26   ` Terje Kvernes
2001-07-09 23:56     ` Dan Armak
2001-07-10  0:11       ` Daniel Robbins
2001-07-10  0:21         ` Jerry A!
2001-07-10  5:29         ` Dan Armak
2001-07-10 10:53           ` Daniel Robbins
2001-07-10 13:21             ` tadpol
2001-07-09 13:57   ` Daniel Robbins
2001-07-09 23:56     ` Dan Armak
2001-07-10  0:01       ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-07-10  4:39         ` Dan Armak

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