Package alien

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 03:55:14 UTC 2007


Not all people accidentally using dpkg would be stupid. Perhaps they are
used to a Debian based system, yadda yadda yadda... Anyways, upstream could
theoretically be used if a patch was submitted to detect platforms to enable
and disable functionality. For instance, on Debian, a dpkg binary would
function as the full package manager, with apt as repo manager. On a Fedora
machine, dpkg's platform checking would figure out it is fedora and
automatically initialize alien functionality, or just fail with an error
stating that if you want to use debian packages on this platform, use alien
to convert it to the native package format of the platform.

On Dec 8, 2007 8:24 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2007 11:40 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2007 4:24 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> > > The target for dpkg are not casual users, and casual users won't use
> it
> > > anyway.
> >
> > And when someone wants to put a dpkg-enabled tool in the distro that
> > does target casual users?  It's a slippery slope. We avoid
> > being on that slope by not having a fully functional dpkg on the system
> at all.
>
> Do you want to hassle most people that have a legitimate use just to
> protect everyone else?  My level of tolerance is a one time warning,
> and then for all security features to *get out of the way*.
>
> Granted, we probably don't need apt-dpkg in Fedora, and synaptic is a
> very bad idea in my book, (although I'm sure someone else would
> disagree,) but it seems crazy to have to bend over backwards because
> there are stupid people around.
>
> -Yaakov
>
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