🚀 go-pugleaf

Jason Stokes wrote:

> On 15 Apr 1999 17:06:00 -0400, James R. Van Zandt <jrv@mitre.org> wrote:
>
> >Linuxuser@windows98.com (Linux User) writes:
> >
> >> How do I UNINSTALL those programs!!! There are INSTALL-instructions,
> >> but no uninstall. (I mainly use those tar.gz files instead of those
> >> RPMs)
> >
> >This is one of the problems that package managers like rpm (for Red
> >Hat) and dpkg (for Debian) solve.  If you would rather manage packages
> >yourself, then package removal is one of the things you have to do.
>
> Why "Linuxuser@windows98.com" is using tarballs long after they've been made
> obsolescenct by clean package management facilities is beyond me.  Even the
> developers of various packages aren't using tarballs much any more,
> preferring access to revisions over CVS.

I use tarballs because I haven't yet taken the time to read the massive tomes
on RPM and dealing with it.  And I've had more than a few occasions in which
I tried to install RPM's and I couldn't figure out where they were going or
what to do.  With a tarball, all of the information is right at hand.  With
RPM, you need to learn how to use it. . . which I intend to do, but I don't
have the time right now!  And my HDD is large enough to accommodate a few extra
programs (and linux programs usually aren't very large anyway).

Question: why did you feel like you had to insult this person?  he's just a
beginner.  he wanted a little help.  You blasted him.  Why?

FusionGyro