On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> On 3/4/06, Robert Snyder <robertsnyder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/4/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>>> Tarballs, .debs and .rpms are "similar" only in the barest sense. And
>>> .deb files are "ar" archive files which may *contain* tarballs. RPM
>>> files use a format which can only be unpacked using several tools at
>>> once (assuming you're not using rpm itself to unpack them).
>
> Small nit, but at what number does something become "several"? Two?
>
> rpm2cpio | cpio
Or one:
mc
Don't know if that's a front-end though.
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