On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
Once you start
looking at packages that claim to be distribution-agnostic
things break down unless there are some external rules.
In general, those packages don't work well. They end up not
being pretty on any distribution (except maybe the one they're
really made on and for despite the intention).
There's a whole world out there that wishes this wasn't so,
and FHS and LSB aim to help with that, but of course nobody
is forced to follow those, nor are they a complete solution
(at least, not yet). The alternative unfortunately is that
people start packaging with other systems which make the
problem worse, because now there's stuff that ends up
installed on the system but is *not* managed by the package
manager. That really sucks in a lot of ways including ones
we might not instantly think of (like IT deparments claiming
they can't do compliance/license checks on systems in their
enterprise).
I swear you're talking about LSB compliant rpm packages without
dependencies
that one never knows whether the package will install correctly.
73 de Jeff
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