uOn Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:26 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
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.tgz is the standard SlackWare packages format, it's been that way for years, you wouldn't have encountered it unless you'd used slackware,
I have a number of very old slackware distros on the shelf at home. I stopped using it because there was a time when it fell behind with installation and management tools.
there *are* some .tgz files that are 'slackware specific', it's just that they are few and far between. And they're normally fairly well labelled as SlackWare packages.
It's not stoopid, the slackware packages *are* just binaries in a .tgz file, with a couple of scripts in there for setting stuff up nicely. It's no worse an idea than .rpm.
Ok, "stooppid" wassn't what I ment. It seems "Unhelpful" to use a non-unique extension in that way. Atleast ".rpm" tells you whats in there, which is afterall the purpose of the extension.
Peter