On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:04 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > maybe we should delete it. > Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which seems > pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do you mean > 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? > Assuming the latter, a better "system identification" would be > something like `pacman -Q` When /etc/arch-release exists, a script or application knows that it's running on archlinux. With just "pacman -Q" you won't prove it's archlinux, as my debian webserver with custom-compiled software also returns output there: I use pacman to manage my custom compiled software, no matter what distribution I use.
