[ale] Debian or Slackware package management

[Stuffed Crust]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:59:03PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> of these has the easiest package manager to use when adding programs that 
> are in tar form (ex: nmap-3.48.tar.gz).  I do like the idea of using a 
> package manager to ease removal/updating/adding of programs.  So Debian's 
> dh_make or Slackware's makepkg and why is it easier?  I had very little 

Slackware's probably the simplest, while Debian's dpkg format is by far 
the most complicated when to creating packages.  

> success with creating rpm's (spec files, diffs, etc.) and hope there is an 
> easier way.

RPM .spec files are pretty strightforward.  The problems you describe 
would apply to any packaging system.

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