>> Compile? Shouldn't the .deb have a binary in it that's usable as is
>> (assuming he can find a means of extracting it under Mandrake...)
>
>
> There is a reason package managers complain about dependencies.
> If the the Debian pre-built binary was built against significantly
> different libraries, it might not run at all, or worse still,
> behave incorrectly.
In general. But since the .deb for mbr says it's part of
the "base" installation and only depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7)
in practice it would likely "just work".
I'd be arguing this point more energetically if it hadn't just
sunk in that this guy has deinstalled his Mandrake distro - so
this whole discussion us moot. Oh, well...
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