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Re: status of Progeny projects



On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:30:53PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > dpkg-rpm would read .rpm, and would output a tarfile, like dpkg-deb reads .deb
> > and outputs a tarfile.
>
> What do you need that for? alien exists. So does rpm.

Why have the separate step?

And using rpm to install rpms on a dpkg-managed system is bound to fail.  Any
time you have multiple package managers working side-by-side will cause
issues, as neither will know about the other.

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