[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[Brad Campbell]

Cameron Patrick wrote:
> rare cases where it /is/ necessary to install a package in a format that
> is not the native one, tools like alien exist to convert them.  (I have
> no idea how successful they are; I've never used alien before.  Or used
> Red Hat for any significant amount of time, for that matter.)

If the binaries are compatible, alien does a pretty good job.
I have used it on cinelerra and it's related utils, I also use it all 
the time on win4lin.
If you are using it on something like a service or daemon that messes 
with the rc.d dirs, then you may need to manually intervene after the 
install and make a link or two, but nothing drastic. Other than that it 
seems pretty seamless.

The trick for me was alien -c which tries to convert the pre/post 
install scripts as well..

Brad
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