Jeff Johnson wrote:

> On Nov 23, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>     - jbj: re-add rpm2cpio.c.
>>
>> Nice. Should we also install _this_ program instead of the weak
>> scripts/rpm2cpio script?
>
> Depends on your religion. Some like simple programs, others like 
> scripts.

When I'm using RPM (as in: actually have it installed), I prefer
the rpm2cpio program. When I don't, I normally used rpm2cpio.pl...

So there is use for both a program and a script, in my opinion.
(then again, lots of file managers have RPM and XAR support too)

--anders