On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On the other side, I wonder what has made Fedora decide that "Alien" >> was not worth including as a standard package with the distro?. >> After all it doesn´t mean supporting that other devil package format >> ;-) but actually making life _easier_ for Fedora users that >> sometimes might stumble upon some piece of software only delivered >> as a .deb ... > > Personally, I don't think alien does a good job converting packages. > It's perhaps a step better than checkinstall. But neither is a > substitute for properly packaging the software as an rpm.
I agree, on principle. Yet, alien worked wonders and I have jEdit installed in my F14 system. :) FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
