Fedora without RPM?

[Karl Larsen]

Yes it does sound like you better try Debian. Also join their list 
because they use Top comments like you seem to prefer.

Karl


Isaac Serafino wrote:
> It sounds like Fedora just still isn't the distro for me. Maybe I'll
> go with LFS, Slackware, Gentoo, a Debian-based distro, or something.
>
> On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:58 -0500, Isaac Serafino wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there any way to get and use Fedora without the RPM program or any
>>> RPM packages, for instance, using an alternative package manager, or
>>> compiling everything from the source?
>>>       
>> I'd have to wonder why you'd want to do that.  You might as well do
>> Linux from scratch, or pick on of the other smaller distros which don't
>> use a package manager.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you mean adding packages to a Fedora system, and
>> those additional things not being RPM packages, then of course you can
>> do that.  Just the same as you can with any Linux distro.  But it's up
>> to you to figure out how to add anything additional that they depend on,
>> that you don't already have.
>>
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>> (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
>>  important to the thread.)
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>> I read messages from the public lists.
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