RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>     >> Debian on the other hand uses shell and Perl scripts.  Not that
>     >> they're necessarily easier, but the skills are more widespread.
> 
>     Scott> rpm is 'basically' shell script.  ie, the directives given
>     Scott> in the %prep, setup, %build, %install sections are the same
>     Scott> as bash script.
> 
> There are differences among /bin/sh, /bin/bash, and especially
> /bin/csh as to how scripts can be written.  A script that begins
> "#! /bin/sh" has announced what language it handles.
> 
>     >> I've also found the quality of Debian contribs to be generally
>     >> higher than RPMs, possibly because Debian makes a big deal of
>     >> the "Debian Policy,"
> 
>     Scott> rpms all put their documentation into
>     Scott> /usr/doc/(packagename)
> 
> What is the packagename for the meta-documentation, like FSSTND?
> 
> Under Debian, you can find the documentation for RPM under
> /usr/doc/rpm (if you've installed the "alien" package).  (Note, not
> under /usr/doc/rpm-2.9.43127890, which I find to be a pain in the
> butt.)  And you can find FSSTND under /usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd.
> Where is it on Red Hat?

hm... looks like... it isn't :)

Oh well.  Despite its faults, I like RPM a lot.  It'll continue to
improve, too, since it has more people and money developing it than dpkg
does, I would think.

So, (and this is to everyone), what are the main things that you *don't*
like about RPM?  Possibly I can address some of them for the next
TurboLinux (a better user-interface for package management is one that I
hear a lot, and I'm going to work on that for TL 2.0).

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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