>> There was an apt4rpm project that had quite a following >> before the adoption of yum
> Yeah, I know about apt4rpm, which is now called alien IIRC. > Still odd. :) Alien (if you're thinking of the same one I am) predates even apt4rpm. As I recall, it was something the Debian folks put together to convert between tarballs, RPMs and .deb packages. Not perfect, by any means, but a fairly useful tool. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
