In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/09/98 at 04:36 PM, Martin Oldfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex> Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use > Alex> Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even > Alex> distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download > Alex> it right now, if you want. >Personally I think that this misses the point. If Oracle support RedHat >and I can just get the software and install it then it's a much more >attractive proposition than having to install tarballs on Debian. Is it >too much to hope that Debian's supposedly superior technology would >persuade Oracle to release their software in a .deb ? And if they won't take the "trouble" of making a .deb, maybe someone interested can offer to make the .deb for them? Or supply a script that does the job? Helge
