RPM vs DEB vs Slackware-like tgz

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> This continues the emails Alexander sent a while back (March 5).
> 
> Alexander, am I correct in my assumption that you would consider RPM a
> good choice and DEB a bad choice for LFS purposes.

Yes. Note that I have not evaluated pacman.

> Your emails made it sound (to me) that deb would be a lot harder to
> implement, maintain and understand (config file wise ie debian/rules
> files). RPM, on the other hand, sounds a lot simpler to implement and
> maintain as far as you are concerned.

What's even more important for educational purposes, Debian rules are incoherent 
between various Debian packages.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov