On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote: > > It might be smart to fork rpm (call it something else) and re-do the > > header fields to be more sensible, then use APT to provide understanding > > This would be bad. Especially since RPM is a cross platform standard: > people are using rpm to install packages on Solaris machines and many > other commercial Unix platforms.
.deb files are perhaps more so.. While dpkg doesn't exist for everything, the file format of .deb is just an ar file with a few tarballs inside.
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