Fedora without RPM?

[Isaac Serafino]

It sounds like Fedora just still isn't the distro for me. Maybe I'll
go with LFS, Slackware, Gentoo, a Debian-based distro, or something.

On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:58 -0500, 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?
>
> I'd have to wonder why you'd want to do that.  You might as well do
> Linux from scratch, or pick on of the other smaller distros which don't
> use a package manager.
>
> On the other hand, if you mean adding packages to a Fedora system, and
> those additional things not being RPM packages, then of course you can
> do that.  Just the same as you can with any Linux distro.  But it's up
> to you to figure out how to add anything additional that they depend on,
> that you don't already have.
>
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