Hello, for that purpose it is okay to have dpkg, but honestly, there are not many people who use a ArchLinux system for building packages for other systems than ArchLinux. On the other hand there is the danger of having people who see a nice rpm ore deb somewhere and say "oh, there is no PKGBUILD for that, lets installa it using dpkg." They can do it now using the PKGBUILD for dpkg, but that is one step more. Stefan -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:26 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Should I bring rpm/dkpg to community From: "A. Klitzing" To: aur-general@archlinux.org Hi, I want to say something to that dpkg package because I maintain some debian-related packages in AUR [1]. I ported some packages from Debian to ArchLinux. I didn't port it because I want to have deb packages on ArchLinux but I want to build deb packages on ArchLinux. I ported for example pbuilder (needs dpkg) so everyone can build clean und nice debs without to have real Debian installation. I didn't think that many people want to use dpkg as his primary package management in Arch. Maybe they want it like me... develop on ArchLinux for Debian/Ubuntu/... ;-) Best Regards, André Klitzing [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Misery