Allan McRae wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
I was wondering what peoples opinions are about putting rpm/dpkg in [community]. They both have a descent number of votes (27 & 33) so people obviously find them useful. Does anyone have objections about their "unArchness" (it is a real word, honest!)? It is what has stopped me moving dpkg so far...
Well, I seem to have a fairly negative reaction on average so far...
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. These packages would make it slightly easier to install them but also give the ability to create these package formats which is why I grabbed dpkg in the first place.
Thanks for all the comments. I will _NOT_ be moving these to community. I had never actually considered moving dpkg to community until I received a couple of emails from users asking me to do so. As I said in my first email, I thought they were "unArchlike" (another real word!) As an aside, the argument that it can screw up a users system is not a great one. I've seen rm ruin a system but we still keep coreutils... :D Allan