Ray Rashif wrote: > With any kind of development tool, you have to know how it works and to > what extent it can help you. If Alien, for instance, does not prove to > be sufficient, you have to fill in the gaps with other tools or even > "manual labour". > > Personally, alien, rpmextract, deb2targz, have all been useful. There's > nothing on it that warrants recommendation because there's no other > similar utility (at least not that I know of) - you use it if you need it. I've used Alien a couple of times to convert packages from the archaic RPM format into the sleek and modern DEB format without any problems, but I stick with Debian so have only chosen to do it 3 times in six years of Linux use. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
