Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:06:15PM -0400, MJM wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 13:44, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach MJM <linux-support@earthlink.net> [2003.07.16.1819 +0200]:
> > > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM
> > > and use alien to make a .deb from the .rpm.
> >
> > NO! do it right!
>
> I wasn't serious, but after skimming the package maintainers guide to see
> what the right way is I can see why alien would not be liked. Why on earth
> did the people deciding what packages to include allow the alien package to
> be released? It seems like instructions and tools for peeing in the pool.
Er, no, the .rpm -> .deb direction is distinctly useful, not to mention
required for LSB compliance ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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