> > I just find it interesting that RedHat is making everyone upgrade to a > new version of RPM when they plan to move to an entirely different > package format in the 8.x series (though maybe I should keep quiet -- > that will still be a year and a half or two years in the future, and > there is always the possibility that it just won't happen). From what I > understand, the new format will be a sort of über-package, which will be > used by pretty much everybody (merging the .deb and .rpm camps.. Dunno Not sure if this will be a good thing or not. There will be much resistance to it I imagine. > about the Slackwareians, though ;-) Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's overly complicated vision of the world. Personally, I love Slacks packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from source. Gabe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Ya lousy bum!" - Muddy Mudskipper in "Stimpy's Big Day" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org