On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:50 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
I would certainly concur with this. Without making a judgment as to
the value of having alien or other alternative packaging tools in the
repository.. I would agree that if we are going to be putting dpkg and
friends into the repository that they come configured by default to
only act as helpers for using Fedora as a (re)packaging host.
Enabling functionality beyond that should be relatively difficult to
enable if not disabled entirely at buildtime. There maybe some rather
clever unorthodox ways to make use of a fully capable dpkg in other
ways, but I don't want users accidental stumbling into those
situations just because they installed dpkg and followed a google'd
recipe article to have dpkg replace rpm on their Fedora system.
I once installed FC2 by hand, using debian's rpm, to hot-convert said
debian machine to Fedora. :)
And I kept notes:
http://www.haxxed.com/random/fedorainstall.txt
Its actually the oldest surviving Fedora install I have, and is still in
use. Its survived apt-rpm upgrades up to FC5 or so, and its been yum
upgrades since then. And survived most of the hardware being replaced
and a total re-purposing. It was originally a firewall box, but was
replaced by a (Linux based) wireless router and re-purposed as an
"HTPC"...