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.
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