the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
<snip>
>> There's this thing called 'alien' that Debian puts out that I looked at
>> for a few minutes on Google that supposedly lets one install rpms on
>> debian-based boxes.  Do you have any experience with that?
> 
> Alien is a nice little tool for dealing with the occasional package that 
> you want to convert from one format to the other, however its not really 
> intended for mass package conversion.  If you have that many RPMs that you 
> need in Debian format (or vice versa) then you are likely using the wrongt 
> distro.
> 

I don't know, yet.  I'm just trying to anticipate and avoid problems 
(and maybe an extensive learning curve).


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