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Quote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:47:50 pmQuote from: alberthrocks on June 21, 2012, 10:45:32 pmQuote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:28:58 pmEDIT:Oooh, guess what i found:http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convertThis is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)Yeah,i guess. However, I do not see any programs right now that i want to install that are not in the slitaz package manager.Also, I have used the "alien" command in ubuntu to install rpm's before,and it seemed to work fine, so I dont see how this is different.The alien tool was written by a Debian developer, who not only understands his project's own dependency requirements, but also other package managers as well. Not saying that the person who wrote that tool is not capable of writing a good tool, but it's kinda unlikely that success will occur. Also, the alien tool's man page does say that this conversion is done with rebuilding the entire source, so... and Ubuntu highly discourages this method of installing packages due to the possibility of dependency problems.If you'd like to put it to the test, here's a package that you'd might like:http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/tilp2Download the DEB that matches your architecture, and then convert and install the package. I'm quite curious as to whether SliTaz can install this guy without a hitch or not. If it does, it will be quite the technological achievement!
Quote from: alberthrocks on June 21, 2012, 10:45:32 pmQuote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:28:58 pmEDIT:Oooh, guess what i found:http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convertThis is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)Yeah,i guess. However, I do not see any programs right now that i want to install that are not in the slitaz package manager.Also, I have used the "alien" command in ubuntu to install rpm's before,and it seemed to work fine, so I dont see how this is different.
Quote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:28:58 pmEDIT:Oooh, guess what i found:http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convertThis is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)
EDIT:Oooh, guess what i found:http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convert
"welcome to the world of computers, where everything seems to be based on random number generators"
# touch /etc/apt/apt.conf# nano /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Install-Recommends "false";APT::Install-Suggests "false";
arch really is probably the best other choice. you can make it as light as you want, and there is plenty of forum support.
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