[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[sscott at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>:

> AIUI Even Slackware's tgzs have got /some/ form of
> metadata in the form of the index files in the package directory and the
> install.sh script contained in the tgz itself.

That I did not know, but yes, you have identified the distinction. tgz is not a 
package format per se, but I guess the addition of some type of metadata 
changes that.


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