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SQL Server is meant primarily for enterprises, what they're doing makes sense. IMO if they want to be super nice* they could provide a zip package which other distros can turn into their specific packages.

* Open Sourcing it is probably unrealistic at this point.




Use rpm2cpio and you have a cpio archive. Not zip exactly but you could work with it outside of Redhat/Ubuntu/Suse.


Unless Microsoft fucked up postinstall scripts, what programmers that build packages tend to do.


I don't believe that's a problem here.


the "alien" program can convert packages between different install formats.




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