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[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:40:54AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As gentoo user, I'd have to say that rpm and deb have built in flaws.
> >    1. Do you really know what's being installed or why
> 
> For DEB distros, sure. You can use aptitude to examine the dependency
> tree, and you can use dpkg to examine the contents of a DEB file.  I'm
> sure you can examine the contents of RPMs, but I don't know the
> commands.

One could also use tar to unpack a .deb (which is simply a tarball) and
examine the contents.  An .rpm uses cpio but some of the metadata would
be lost if one uses cpio to extract the contents.  RPM requires a
specific tool whereas .deb uses standard tools.

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