Are the documents themselves restricted if other people have them? If so, could they not be "translated" to say effectively the same thing, but in such a way that the documents are then authored by someone else, and so open for distribution?
"What the heck for?" is not a useful reply. RPMs are a lot cleaner than tarballs, and make the maintenance of a system much easier. If you are happy using tarballs, then fine, but it's wise not to mix them with rpms on a system.
RPMs don't need to be made by RedHat. You can roll your own, or, as is often the case, the program author can produce them, PGP sign them, and hence make the binary that much more trustworthy. In this instance Netscape haven't produced them, so I expect Redhat or another contributor will probably produce them in the near future, and put them in their updates directory.
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Are the documents themselves restricted if other people have them? If so, could they not be "translated" to say effectively the same thing, but in such a way that the documents are then authored by someone else, and so open for distribution?
"What the heck for?" is not a useful reply. RPMs are a lot cleaner than tarballs, and make the maintenance of a system much easier. If you are happy using tarballs, then fine, but it's wise not to mix them with rpms on a system.
RPMs don't need to be made by RedHat. You can roll your own, or, as is often the case, the program author can produce them, PGP sign them, and hence make the binary that much more trustworthy. In this instance Netscape haven't produced them, so I expect Redhat or another contributor will probably produce them in the near future, and put them in their updates directory.