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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, David Stanaway wrote:

> I am only fairly new to Linux/Unix, but if I want to see what is inside a
> package, I know that all I need to to is run up `mc' and have a peak.
> Easy really. I don't know what all the fuss is about...

I don't think you understand what we are talking about. We're talking
about how different distributions (prepackaged versions of Linux) put
together packages.

You see if every distribution did everything the same way, there wouldn't
be distributions. There would just be one Linux. Sadly, people have
different opinions about how things should be done.

In different distributions, packages are stored in different formats, for
example:

	* Debian -> .deb
	* RedHat -> .rpm
	* Slack  -> .tgz
	* Suse   -> .tgz

You get my point.

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