Mike Leone on Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:38:49 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] apt-get / rpm freshmeat article


>Just use alien. Nifty little perl script that converts between deb, rpm, slp,
>and tgz packages. Just convert the rpm to deb and 'dpkg -i' it :)

Don't think that was the point; I believe he means having just *1* file format. With alien, you still have multiple formats - and multiple copies of the same program, in different formats. Of course, one file type would eliminate the need for alien altogether.

Note that this is not a put down of alien; it probably works very well.

>> I was happy to read this, although I'd prefer that the deb & rpm package
>> formats be merged.


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