Fedora without RPM?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Oct 25 23:29:23 UTC 2007


Isaac Serafino wrote:
> Is there any way to get and use Fedora without the RPM program or any
> RPM packages, for instance, using an alternative package manager, or
> compiling everything from the source?
> 
Without rpm, it's not Fedora.

However, with care one can copy components and the shared libraries they 
require and get something that works. This could be appropriate for 
special-purpose systems such as pebble (google "pebble wireless").

How is a question for another forum,

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Cheers
John

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