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From: Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch>
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Subject: Re: Another FOSS Gem
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 07:56:30 -0400
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On Tue, 21 May 2024 02:02:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

>On 19 May 2024 11:27:51 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>> The only reason I care about Fedora is because the people maintaining
>> the asusctl project are exclusive to Fedora and SUSE. They used to
>> provide instructions on how to install their software on Ubuntu and
>> Mint, but they've given up on it entirely.
>
>Looking at the readme <https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl>, it’s only 
>the building instructions that are distro-specific, and that is only the 
>installation of dependencies.
>
>If you want prebuilt packages, and they are only available in RPM format, 
>there is a way to install those on Debian and derivatives, using alien.

I'm aware, and I've used alien in the past to convert a .deb of
msi-keyboard to .rpm, to use in openSUSE. Considering how crucial that
utility is, I would rather have it be completely supported than hope
that it will transform and work correctly on a distribution that it
wasn't designed for.