"Alien" .deb converter to rpm in F14, how?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On the other side, I wonder what has made Fedora decide that "Alien"
>> was not worth including as a standard package with the distro?.
>> After all it doesn´t mean supporting that other devil package format
>> ;-) but actually making life _easier_ for Fedora users that
>> sometimes might stumble upon some piece of software only delivered
>> as a .deb ...
>
> Personally, I don't think alien does a good job converting packages.
> It's perhaps a step better than checkinstall.  But neither is a
> substitute for properly packaging the software as an rpm.

I agree, on principle. Yet, alien worked wonders and I have jEdit
installed in my F14 system. :)

FC