Re: [LI] PCQ giving Sources instead of RPMs

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It is best to give sources than RPMs, because RPMs work only on RedHat
> Installations, or S.u.S.E, Mandrake etc.For people using Debian
> sources are helpful.

For the (comparatively small) minority of those using Debian, there is
always rpm2tgz.  For the others - rpm is always better and more
convenient.  

It's merely a question of having control over your packages instead of
doing rm -rf all over the place (and perhaps deleting something you should
not have deleted).

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