Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 1999 06:42:55 -0500 (CDT) | From | Andrew Kieschnick <> | Subject | Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes |
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Chris Ricker wrote: > > > Furthermore, don't you think you're being just a tad bit petulant? > > It's in RPM because the author (Stephen Tweedie, I think) chose to do > > it that way. "He who writes the code gets to make the rules." It's > > not like he posted it in rot-13, uuencoded, and then binhex4 or > > something absurd like that--rpm is a fairly standard Linux file > > format, particularly given that he's a RH employee. > > I have to grumble about things like this because there are many of us who > don't use RedHat and wouldn't know what RPM is or even *WANT* to use it! > > Furthermore, essential files that are meant to be part of Linux shouldn't > be distributed in a format proprietary to RedHat. It's fine if they use > RPM on their distributions but DO NOT LOCK the rest of us OUT! I have a > number of bitches about RedHat too but this isn't the place or the time > for these (take it to slashdot =)
I don't use RedHat, and I may not care for RPM, but having to type 1 extra command to convert an RPM into a format of my choosing is not a big deal. Also, RPM isn't exactly proprietary to RedHat - there are other distributions using it, and its under the GPL. I fail to see how anyone is being "locked out".
later, Andrew Kieschnick
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