Re: RPM

[Leslie Mikesell <les@Mcs.Net>]

> > Great!  Will it be aware of the different filesystem locations?  Shouldn't
> > these really be built into a user-configurable list instead of
> > the packages themselves?  
> 
> Alien doesn't currently handle that. It's just too much work, and there's
> no way I could guarentee it'd be correct all the time.
> 
> Alien just converts from one format to another, and you get all the files,
> in all the same locations they were in in the original package.

Is anyone keeping track of who is moving what where, and why?  The usual
reason for wanting to install an alien package would be that it has
a bug fix not yet available in a native package so you'll have to
seek and destroy all the old components manually.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com