why is there an RPM tree under /usr/src ?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:37:51PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
> forgive my ignorance, but should this be here?
> 
> root at ubuntu:/usr/src/rpm/RPMS # du -sh *
> 4.0K    athlon
> 4.0K    i386
> 4.0K    i486
> 4.0K    i586
> 4.0K    i686
> 4.0K    noarch

The rpm package installs those. rpm is installed as a dependency of
alien, which is there for LSB-compliance.

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/germinate-output/hoary/rdepends/rpm/rpm

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]