The LSB project www.linuxbase.org aims to do exactly that. This compatibility is what the LSB option during Mandrake install is for. However it has a very long way to go.
In order to have these "universal RPMs": - Linux needs to standardise on a certain set of libraries. LSB has mostly achieved this, but a long way to go still. - these libraries need to be forever backward compatible. Most of the time they are, but from time to time (cca every 2 years) they go on and break backward compatibility. When this happens, distros increase the major version number ie. this happened between Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 - they also need to be forever forward compatible ie. no new features. This will probably never happen. Meanwhile you just have to understand that rpms are rarely universal and most of them are distro- and even distro-version-number specific. --- Keld J�rn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I would like to see for MDK 10: > That RedHat, Fedora, SuSE and other rpm packages be > installabla on MDK systems. > > I dont know what analyses is needed to do that, but > it > is probably something with compatibility libraries. > > Or maybe it is something to do about having packages > follow LSB. > > Best regards > keld > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
