Erik LaBianca writes: > Beyond scientific computing, application developers (both open > source and commercial) need better ways to distribute their code in > a runnable (aka binary) form. Just trying to find an mp3 player > that would work on centos4 ended up taking me the better part of 4 > hours since there is no livna for rhel4, and nobody packages for > it. If developers had an easy way to provide me with an > lsb-compatible rpm I could have tried a whole raft of packages and > picked one I liked, instead of being stuck with the first one that > would compile and run correctly. Well, hold on: that problem is caused by software patents, not by packaging issues. Let's point the finger in the right direction, eh? Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
