On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 10:26:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Chad Miller wrote: > > > What are we going to do about the LSB, which specifies RPM? Ignore it? > > If it were up to me: make sure alien's priority is "required" or higher, don't do that. i and many other have no intention of using proprietary software, and any Free software not packaged for debian i compile from source and make install into /usr/local. i don't have rpm installed now, and never want it forced in with high priorities or essential: yes. priority standard would be acceptable if you must, but no higher. and dpkg (or any other essential debian pacakge) should NOT depend on it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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