Re: "Alien" from Red Hat rpm or Fedora Core rpm?
On Monday 16 February 2004 21:30, Vineet Kumar wrote:
(1)
> So it doesn't matter what distribution your rpm was targetted for; in
> most cases, it's not debian, and installing it on your debian system
> will most likely result in a system which is in violation of debian
> policy. This doesn't necessarily mean anything bad; just that your
> system isn't really a "clean" debian system anymore, and that should
> be taken into account when considering any bugs you may experience.
(2)
> I think a better answer to software not available from debian directly
> is usually to compile and install in /usr/local, rather than resorting
> to trying to install foreign packages. Luckily, the dependencies
I was a little confused by this: could you tell me if I'm interpreting
it correctly? I think that (1) produces an "unclean" system because
non-Debian stuff is installed in /usr/bin, /usr/man, /usr/lib, etc.,
whereas (2) is better because the stuff that is not produced from
Debian packages is in /usr/local/* -- is that right?
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