19 Jul
2001
19 Jul
'01
10:17 p.m.
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 07:15 pm, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
It is better simply because it is backed by sane, strictly enforced policies about creating packages, which is compounded by the fact that almost all the .deb come from a single source, the Debian project.
Why can't Red Hat guys have sane and strict policies ?
Or an even better idea is to download tarballs and then create rpm packages out of them before installing.
Sorry I cannot comprehend what you mean . Please enlighten.
P.S. I even tried the tarballs and tried to ' make , ./configure ' and stuff like that but I got some hard to comprehend errors :(
Just for curiosity : In old Unices (Hope I spelled it right ;-) ) how were the apps installed?