<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I have to 100% agree with Ralf here. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/19 1:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20190812191310.3d2a3469@moonstudio"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">installing "alien" packages, based upon a different package management via apt, is a bad idea. This is not functional, it's dysfunctional. </pre> </blockquote> This is well known to not mix and match different packaging styles. Some packages are even written for different filesystem specs and paths that those packages expect won't exist on Ubuntu, and other problems. If the question is whether we should expand to allow non-deb packages to be installed with apt by wrapping around `alien`, I'm going to give this a hard "No" (my opinion, but a strong one) as that kind of additional non-deb 'wrapping' will be opening a potential can of worms worth of issues by adding the `alien` wrapping and the potential for a flood of "Why doesn't my RPM work with apt?" questions on Ask Ubuntu as well as bug reports saying "This function doesn't work!". Thomas </body> </html>