On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > you imagine you get all those spiffy packages in Debian from? It's from > > hundreds of people EDITING EVERYTHING so that you can just type dpkg -i > > package.deb and enjoy the way it works... > > > > marek > > No, Marek, you reread my original. Joe Blow gets some package designed for > Red Hat. How is he going to install that on his Debian system. He learns > he can convert it to a tarball ... whats that? Ok, so he does it. It > still won't install. Hmmm, looks like I have to call a $200/hr Unix > consultant to see IF I can get this stuff installed on my system. > > The point being, do NOT assume that the person trying to load the orignial > Red Hat package even knows what a Makefile is. If he manages to understand how to convert an rpm to a tarball, he will surely understand how to use alien to make a .deb package, and will be smart enough to understand the process.
marek
