Re: "Alien" from Red Hat rpm or Fedora Core rpm?

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/17/04

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    On Monday 16 February 2004 21:30, Vineet Kumar wrote:

    (1)
    > So it doesn't matter what distribution your rpm was targetted for; in
    > most cases, it's not debian, and installing it on your debian system
    > will most likely result in a system which is in violation of debian
    > policy. This doesn't necessarily mean anything bad; just that your
    > system isn't really a "clean" debian system anymore, and that should
    > be taken into account when considering any bugs you may experience.

    (2)
    > I think a better answer to software not available from debian directly
    > is usually to compile and install in /usr/local, rather than resorting
    > to trying to install foreign packages. Luckily, the dependencies

    I was a little confused by this: could you tell me if I'm interpreting
    it correctly? I think that (1) produces an "unclean" system because
    non-Debian stuff is installed in /usr/bin, /usr/man, /usr/lib, etc.,
    whereas (2) is better because the stuff that is not produced from
    Debian packages is in /usr/local/* -- is that right? 

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