the 'which distro' question

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>   
> 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.
>   
The only time I have used alien (I'm currently running Ubuntu) is when 
they release openoffice 2.x and I want it straight away a few days ahead 
of the official ubuntu packagers release.

The only issue I've found with the alien converted rpm to deb 
installation is the menu shortcuts all launch openoffice but fail to 
open a new document of the type which the menu is for eg. it doesn't 
open a blank writer doc for instance but just openoffice and then you 
have to click file ==> new ==> spreadsheet|text document etc.