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.
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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?
Yes, this would not be an example of dpkg supporting the rpm format:
we'd need some way of dealing with regular dependencies, file
conflicts, etc. We might also refuse to install rpms which replace
essential packages (except with --force-essential-rpm).
That said: dpkg is a very significant package, and we'd need some
pretty hot talent to address all the design issues. Right now,
it's just too hard to understand and is not documented adequately...
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Raul has failed to understand dpkg internals
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