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Re: dpkg issues

Dan Stromberg <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu> writes:

> alien doesn't go far enough.

To my mind alien goes too far.  The idea that we could suport all RPM
packages that were packaged specifically for RedHat is not realistic,
unless we are planning to dramatically change Debian's focus.

What format a pacakge comes in has little to do with the actual
*contents* of the package.  So unless we're going to change all our
init level stuff, documentation conventions, conf file handling, file
layout, and many other issues to be the same as RedHat's, we can't
*ever* expect that a given RPM packaged for RedHat will work on a
Debian system.  To indicate otherwise is misleading and potentially
dangerous to users.

In other words, from a system design standpoint, I think working
toward cross Debian/RedHat RPM installability would essentially mean
our job would just become the task of making sure that our system is a
careful clone of RedHat, and that's not what I think most of us have
in mind.

The only realistic way I could see that this wouldn't be the case
would be if RPM were changed to be a format that had "sections" where
there could be the common files, the Debian specific stuff, and the
RPM specific stuff.  But I think this would just be asking for
versioning and organizational nightmares with little benefit.

-- 
Rob


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