The main advantage to using Debian made packages is that a Debian develpoer made them and you can be sure they follow Debian policy and standards. Installing a new version of a package from an rpm may wipe out a conf file or change the directory it looks for data.
In general a Debian package is available rather quickly after a package is released. If you find this not to be the case, contact the Debian maintainer and ask him/her about it. On 16-Jan-99 Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I am forwarding the question below to this list because I am not sure > about the answer. Some experts on this list should be able to answer it > and inform readers of the GLUG-list in South Africa of whom a very few are > debian user's about debian. > > Johann > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > To: GLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Sean Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: GLUG: Alien package converter for Debian > > I know that you can use alien to convert rpm files to deb files. Are there > any disadvantages to downloading the rpm files and installing all software > this way for Debian or is it better to download the deb file for the > program. > > Thanks > > Sean Preston > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe glug" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
