On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:05:26 +0100, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:52:22PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: >> Wait just one second here! Does this mean that an alien race that is >> hive-mind based cannot apply? In one sense it would be an >> individual, but it would consist of multiple beings. > Bah, no aliens, thanks. Well, we already have at least one alien: # apt-cache show alien Package: alien Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 464 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 8.63 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.63_all.deb Size: 103664 MD5sum: 4a48fc8446869a8b158b37285ce50d3e Description: install non-native packages with dpkg Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. Tag: devel::packaging, interface::commandline, made-of::lang:perl, suite::debian, use::converting, works-with::archive:tar, works-with::software:package -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
