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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 05:06:52
Message-Id: CAAD4mYikJdQMczz-+dSfZrin-LkG2abRjt6=U7hXBtzBsGCLxQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm or deb package installs by Tom H
1 > For deb packages, you can use binutils' ar; there's no need for dpkg.
2 > (IIRC, if you use rpm2tar, you don't need rpm installed unlike
3 > rpm2cpio, but I'm not 100% sure.)
4 >
5
6 You are right, rpm2targz doesn't require rpm to be installed. I found
7 I already had it installed yesterday (via libreoffice).