[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Hogan) wrote on 22.02.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Beyond that I must say I think the idea handing out fake Debian > passports for the purpose of smuggling non-Debian software across the > Debian border is one of the worst ideas I have come across in a long > time; all it achieves it to once again open the door to the very kinds > of problems which the Debian `dpkg' package management system was > designed to keep out. "Handing out passports"? That's ... umm ... an _interesting_ notion. A little weird, maybe. All this is about is book-keeping. Installing a Slackware package as Slackware package means that there is absolutely no record of what you have done; if, for example, it overwrites an important file, it will be *very* hard to find out. Installing it via a detour of making it into a Debian package means that you now have a chance to find out what happened, and you have a chance to undo it. As I recall, that was the original motivation for this thread. And quite obviously, if you convert a package on your own, then you're still on your own with the results - hardly surprising. MfG Kai
