"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is why a lot of people are looking at SLP and liking it. > > tar xzf blah.slp > > There ya go, that's it, end of story. No cpio, no ar, nothing but tar > which has been the standard for years and years, esp. in the Linux community > as a whole. SLP is an extention of that standard. Since it is compatible > with it one can, theoretically, replace TGZ with SLP. The same cannot be > said about deb and rpm. >
So how does their package management work then? I don't understand what the disadvantage to .deb is besides that it is a new file format, especially since there are such nice tools (dpkg) with which to manipulate it. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
