On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:24:02AM -0700, Crawford Rainwater wrote: > portage/emerge is base off of "make" package management. > > And if we wanted to include Debian based "alien" which can convert > between dpkg, rpm, and tarballs (for "make")...wow, can I see the fun > non-Debian folks will have trying to encompass the various options > there. But then the Debian oriented community will have the same with > the "yum" or "YaST" or <insert your favorite RPM higher level package > management utility of choice here>.
alien deals with tgz packages (from slackware), not source code. It also doesn't do that good a job on a lot of rpms. It can't, since the scripts in the package are usually distribution specific. It is at best a crappy hack. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
