On Sun 2008-04-06 16:23 , RedShift wrote:
Neil Darlow wrote:
Hi,
Allan McRae wrote:
Well, I seem to have a fairly negative reaction on average so far...
Perhaps pragmatic would be a better assessment.
I just want to point out that if a user wants to install a rpm/deb package, all the tools are in extra/community already.
But while they're not in Community, they are labelled Unsupported. I'm just thinking of the potential for breakage that can occur when people start mixing packages from foreign distributions with those of Arch and start complaining when it doesn't work.
Since when do we assume the user is dumb?
If the user is not dumb, he can convert the rpm/deb/whatever in an Arch package (compiling the software or using rpm2targz and the like): in this way pacman can handle it. Seriously, I think that having stuff like dpkg in a (semi)official repo could bring the user to think that we support deb packages. We don't have in [community] software that install packages from the AUR for the very same reason: we don't support them. -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB