Re: mega-package rather than sumo tarball
>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
Jan> Richard Coleman <coleman(a)math.gatech.edu> writes:
> I was thinking that when 21.0 is released, it might be better to
have a
> mega-package (union of all common binary packages) rather than a sumo
> tarball.
Jan> I thought the SUMO tarball was exactly that?
Richard's point is that the SUMO tarball is not actually a package
itself, but a different sort of animal. Package manipulation
commands, for example, don't work on it (unless your only package
manipulation tool is `tar').
Martin