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Re: OT : Universal Packaging



Aubin Paul <aubin@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > We've already got tools (alien) that can parse Debian and Redhat control 
> > info and convert between package formats.  The ability to convert
> > between formats is already there.  Naturally this doesn't mean that
> > Redhat (or Mandrake or whoever) could just magically merge into a single
> > distribution, but why would they need to?  What's included in, for
> > example, Redhat that isn't included in Debian?
> 
> <devils advocate mode>
> A recent (i.e. >=1.2) JDK
> </devils advocate mode>

www.blackdown.org has nice jdk 1.3 .debs.

Phil.



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