Re:VHS all over again (Score 2)

Well, 'setld' might not be what users expect today but remember that it stems from Ultrix-Days where others still were using tar/cpio to install SW. Not to talk about deinstalling / upgrading the once installed SW.

Maybe DEQ forgot to adapt it to todays standards though. And after all: why not gather around a reasonable packaging standard like RPM for all those UNIX-like environments? Arguments like ".deb is so much better than .rpm" are rather a waste of time: if Linux helps to unify UNIX then this is a good thing. If it comes for free, the better!

My 5 cts.

noldi