haha. if you dont mind me asking, how old are you?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad Walstrom</b> <<a href="mailto:chewie@wookimus.net">chewie@wookimus.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">"Mikhail Skobov" <<a href="mailto:russianhippie666@gmail.com">russianhippie666@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> so you're saying to not use rmp or w/e and use the tar way?<br><br>No, Mikhail. Stick w/rpm and the other tools that SUSE uses to<br>install software. He was simply ranting at the general concept of<br>munged library naming that some distributions use for their packages,
<br>some complaint about default search paths (which is overcome with<br>LD_LIBRARY_PATH), and a general snipe at developers that hard-code<br>path names in their applications. Nothing really to do with rpm,<br>dpkg, or tarballs.
<br><br>rpm's, deb's, and package-style tarballs all contain binary data, meta<br>data on where to install it on the system, and what prerequisites are<br>needed before the software can work. rpm's are cpio archives with a
<br>meta-data header. deb's are ar archives containing two tarballs and a<br>file or two: control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, and version. Slackware<br>tarballs were... Well, you get the picture.<br><br>Eventually, someone will say, "Why doesn't everyone do what NeXT does,
<br>and by virtue what Mac OS X does, by shipping self-contained software<br>packages?" Someone will say that what we have is good enough.<br>Someone else will state that LSB will save us all. Etc.<br><br>Horses will be beaten (or is it eaten), and eventually, someone will
<br>state someone else is a Nazi; the thread will have officially ended.<br><br>--<br>Chad Walstrom <<a href="mailto:chewie@wookimus.net">chewie@wookimus.net</a>> <a href="http://www.wookimus.net/">http://www.wookimus.net/
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