J. Zidar wrote: > One question: What is the point of the rpm command if it is unsafe > to install RPMs directly? The rpm command is a multifunction tool. It installs and removes packages, sure. But it also builds packages. Therefore if you are going to build an rpm package on Debian or unpack an rpm on Debian neither of which are installing then you need the rpm command on Debian in order to be able to do that. This is what alien is doing under the hood. It would be convenient in this case if the functionality were split into 'rpmbuild' which was separate from 'rpm' as an installer. Which I think is what was done in RH-9. In that case the utility side of rpm could be included while the installer side of it could be separated out. So perhaps in the future this will be possible. Bob
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