Fernando Cassia wrote: > On the other side, I wonder what has made Fedora decide that "Alien" > was not worth including as a standard package with the distro?. > After all it doesn´t mean supporting that other devil package format > ;-) but actually making life _easier_ for Fedora users that > sometimes might stumble upon some piece of software only delivered > as a .deb ... Personally, I don't think alien does a good job converting packages. It's perhaps a step better than checkinstall. But neither is a substitute for properly packaging the software as an rpm. Most of the time, that's a very short process if you just want to package something for your own system. It's a little more work to get the package included in the Fedora repositories. This is a good thing, since the bar should be higher if you intend to have the package deployed to many end-user systems. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. -- Fredric Bastiat
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