Re: Package alien

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

On 12/05/2007 03:27 PM, Zdenek Prikryl wrote:
>> I think it was removed a long time ago before Fedora (I think maybe
>> back in the Red Hat 8 or 9 days, perhaps?)
> 
> Yes, I found alien in RH-[78], but then was removed. And nobody knows why :-)
> 
>> There's no reason it couldn't be readded, AFAICT, if you wanted to
>> become a contributor to the Fedora package collection:
> 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
> 
> If I don't find some important reason, why I shouldn't add this to fedora, then
>  I'll try to be a maintainer.

The question is: It has been absent for a long time now, so it seems
nobody really needs it, does someone? :-)

Well. I guess there are a lot of pkgs that only a few guys do use in
reality, so go for it. Package it. Share it. Use it.

Best,
 Oliver