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

From: Vineet Kumar (vineet_at_doorstop.net)
Date: 02/18/04

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    * Adam Funk (a24061@yahoo.com) [040217 00:48]:
    > 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?

    Yup. I suppose it's all a matter of opinion, but yes, it sounds like
    you are interpreting what I said correctly.

    good times,
    Vineet 

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