Unix-style "package" format tools?

[jkvg at ccs.neu.edu (Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal)]

> 
> does anyone know if "pkgadd" and the other package format tools have been 
> implemented on Linux?
> 
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If you can forsake compatability, RedHat Linux has an excellent
graphical+command line packaging utility called RPM which is freely
distributable under the GPL.

--Jag