Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, installing "alien" packages, based upon a different package management via apt, is a bad idea. This is not functional, it's dysfunctional. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
I have to 100% agree with Ralf here. On 8/12/19 1:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > installing "alien" packages, based upon a different package management > via apt, is a bad idea. This is not functional, it's dysfunctional. This is well known to not mix and match different packaging styles.  Some pac

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.08.2019, 12:00 +0300 schrieb Mike: > This option should provide much more interoperability between > different Linux distros. Say, some enterprise software is only > available in rpm-packages, but the binaries inside are runnable on > any > Linux x86_64 system, you can just u