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Re: new debian packages



On Tue, 20 May 1997, Shlomo Solomon wrote:

> Once you decide which to install (Debian, Red Hat, Slackware), are
> you limited to only using packages written for the distribution
> you've installed ?? Can't you recompile packages for one distribution
> and use them on another ??

Debian can eat RH and Slackware packages. RH can eat (or will soon be
able to eat) Debian packages. I am less certain about RH's ability to
eat Slack packages but I suspect that it can. Slack can do neither.


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