On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +0000, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for?
Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm. It can't solve all possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm directly on a Debian system: the main thing that springs to mind for me is that dpkg silently clobbers files in system directories that it doesn't know about, and I would assume rpm also does. This means that if you install a package with rpm, and later a .deb containing the same files is installed, the package system will replace the rpm's files with the deb's files, but neither rpm nor dpkg will know this happened. The effects of this can be pretty dire; using alien avoids them. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
