On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)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