In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9905311454110.13904-100000@rfhs8036.fh-regensburg.de>,
	Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> I'd prefer the further as it allows to easily back out things if something
> goes wrong.

Using "/tmp" as staging area already caused lots of harddisk overruns
in the past.

> Think about conflicting packages, aborted FTP downloads, ...

With the distribution file in a seperate tar archive these errors can
be detected before installation.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/