Re: Software/HD ecology

[Peter S Galbraith]

Ajanta <ajanta@no.spam> wrote:

> Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > 'man rpm', if you're on a RedHat or SuSE system.
> 
> As you could perhaps guess from the Newsgroups line, the specific
> systems we were discussing are Mac OS X and BSD's. Or we could discuss
> all Unix-like systems in general. They don't have "rpm". From your
> statement, it would seem it is not even a Linux syandard, just
> something that comes with two packages?

Doesn't mean one needs to reinvent it.  It's free software.

But I've said this before, and others think that something simple will
be better than the status-quo.