On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:31, Tim Daly wrote: > a simple question: why unpack RPMS? Clearly Linux itself can be run > compressed (Live CDs do that now). Given the bottleneck of slow disk > and fast CPU it might be faster to load the compressed image, unpack > it, and execute it then it would to load it directly. Just use a normal compressed filesystem if you're worried by disk usage. > Yet another > feature is that RPMS don't have to explode all over the filesystem > so upgrading is just a copy operation. That feature becomes a bug when files belonging to packages need to be modified as part of normal functioning (see /etc). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
