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Re: a small distribution pingpong
PLP>> The semantics of these sentences are opposite, but I infer the 'right'
PLP>> way: Slackware can compile ANY RH package, SRPM or not. RH has one hell of
PLP>> a lot of troubles to pick up a tgz from somewhere on the web and compile
PLP>> it without the poor man fudging library links etc.
Tell me which exactly package you had problems with? Which library was
lacking? Did you try rpmfind? ftpsearch? Maybe here again not Samba which
is to be blamed? ;)
I've installed many libs and applications from tar.gz, replaced them with
rpm's, removed rpms, put newer tgz's, put newer rpm's over them... Works.
The only problems was GTK, when rh's GUI stopped working once with newer
GTK+... But so&so it was shi^H^H^Hnot used :)
PLP>> MOST development and expermiental packages come as tgz, AND that is the
PLP>> native mode under Slackware, just as any UNIX (well, ok, tar.gz). So, in
Well, tell me you can't install tgz on RH or Debian or any other Linux
flavour?
And without pre/post-install scripts and version info what Slackware gives
me with that experimental tgz's?
PLP>> my eyes, using Slackware is closer to UNIX than RH, which I notice with
PLP>> pleasure every time I use the shell account on actcom (Sun OS). I don't
PLP>> want to think about how I can move a RH package to Sun, and back after
PLP>> porting.
plain tgz lacks the features which is convenient in rpms, as follows:
dependency tracking
version information
pre/postinstall scripts for binary packages
autopatch/autobuild for source packages
easy (well, almost always :) installed s/w tracking and upgrading/removal
package signatures
anything I've forgotten
Adding here rpmfind, we get very convenient tool for fast installs - when
I just want to take the package and put it into my machine. When I like to
compile it by myself and modify it - I take tgz or SRPM or what not, but
when I like it just start moving *now* - rpm is great. Well, maybe .deb
is great too - hadn't a chance to look at it. I need second (third,
fourth, etc) computer badly ;)
PLP>> Search dejanews for 'cracked Linux RH' and 'cracked Linux Slackware'. I
PLP>> did not but it should. Consider that Slackware is about 1:3 vs. RH.
Excuse me, but this is The Bullshit (TM). I could expand very verbose
argument about what conclusions would bring such a method of determining
OS security, but I suppose any sane person can see it. If (s)he is going
to stop silly arguments and use the brain.
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