If you're just experimenting, using apt to get things in Debian repos is a nice, quick & dirty way to get things running. it may or may not work well.
On a production system, you'd be crazy to do so... you're going to run into all sorts of dependency hell, break things, and spending alot of time for not much benefit -- you're better off building your own RPM if you enjoy pain or just building apps in your env.
