Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-13 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 21:37, Mike wrote: > > Today, to properly install rpm-packages on my laptops, I'm running Which rpm packages are they? For which architectures? Is .deb available? Or snap? If not, have you tried reaching out to the vendor to provide snap/deb? Do you want us to reach

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.08.2019, 12:00 +0300 schrieb Mike: > This option should provide much more interoperability between > different Linux distros. Say, some enterprise software is only > available in rpm-packages, but the binaries inside are runnable on > any > Linux x86_64 system, you can just

Re: Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-12 Thread Thomas Ward
I have to 100% agree with Ralf here. On 8/12/19 1:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > installing "alien" packages, based upon a different package management > via apt, is a bad idea. This is not functional, it's dysfunctional. This is well known to not mix and match different packaging styles.  Some

Some ideas about APT functionality

2019-08-11 Thread Mike
Hi everyone! I think, my idea is not new. As long as "apt" utility wraps around "apt-get" and "apt-cache", could it please also wrap around "alien", in case if it is installed? So that we could install rpm-packages via "apt install", or even slackware ones(thus with no dependencies), with