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Re: RH and GNOME



"Petra, Kevin J Poorman" <ewigin@SoftHome.net> writes:

> dpkg should be made to call alien on a rh package automaticly
> ... ie: dpkg -i some_package.rpm would trigger alein, and then
> dpkg... so that it's automatic, and easy for newbies, and non-power
> users, to install rh packages.

All other issues aside, I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  I
think this is an extremely poor idea.  Who's going to take
responsiblilty for *big* flame festival as soon as some user tries

  dpkg -i sysvinit*.rpm

because they heard there was a security fix that they needed that was
already available in the RedHat package?

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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