Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 12 mars 2009, à 10:25 +1100, Michael Fox a écrit :
> Now here is the delicate part and why this mail is here. we need to have
> support for debs off the bat, but still be dominantly rpm
>  as lets face it a lot of apps only provide debs and we need some way to
> support them as forcing a new user to compile is not nice at all and
> hampers the usability of Linux hence holding the person back from fully
> adopting Linux.

It's generally not that good of an idea to install a deb (even if it's
possible, and it should already be possible with alien). The issue is
that the deb will be compiled against some specific versions of
libraries, and your openSUSE system might have older or more recent
versions. There are also some small evil details in how things are
handled in Debian vs openSUSE which will make things possibly not work
out of the box.

Are there that many apps only providings deb packages?

(let's just make it clear that the mail is not about rpm vs deb: my
reply would be the same for installing rpms on a deb-based system)

Vincent

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