That argument is total horse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you like to edit a text file without an editor???
Either way you need tools to do the work, this idea that you can't assemble a binary file to be easy to human correct in the event of partial corruption is crap. It just needs good design. John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@dhh.gt.org> on 07-09-2000 10:02:21 AM Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat Chris Gray writes: > I understand that dpkg is a much easier tool to use. It is also a lot > slower. It would be nice to write it with a binary database. _NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_ Ahhm. Do you want to try to edit a binary database to fix screwups? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ***************************************************************** This email has been checked by the e-Sweeper Service *****************************************************************