RPM filesystem?

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Thu Jun 3 15:47:47 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:31:51AM -0400, Tim Daly wrote:

> RPMS might not be the very best format for compressed packages but
> they could make a convenient starting point. Fedora extras would
> be so much sweeter if you only needed to mount the DVD containing
> the RPMS and it all "just worked".

Interesting idea... but at leat the pre/post-install scripts, that
are needed in many cases (e.g. ldconfig) cause significant problems
if you would implement such a beast.

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