Am Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:25:07 +0300 schrieb Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2009/8/26 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > What about putting date when pacman -Syu was run for a last time in > > that file? It would still suffer from lag when using mirrors but I > > guess it should be accurate enough. > > I don't think anyone is going to really put something in that file, > so don't hold your breath. > The point it that there's no real usefulness of any information > in that file. Only the existence of the file is needed, > so apps (e.g. VirtualBox) can check for it to know they are > running in Arch. > It's also nice to have for your .$SHELLrc to activate distribution-specific aliases (think package manager for example). /etc/gentoo-release is part of sys-apps/baselayout and contains it's version number: # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System release 2.0.1 So perhaps the version of core/filesystem might be a good fit. (It's not in any way accurate but mirrors the practice of another popular rolling-release distro ;)) --
