On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:16:08PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > Think about Enterprise (non-free) software like Oracle, HP Openview, Tivoli, > Remedy... Do you expect vendors of this software to understand^Wimplement > package management based dependencies for *all* Linux distributions? > LSB tries to simplify the Linux environment for such software. Lsb_release > is defined as the an answer to the question "which distribution am I running > in and which release is it?"
For the kind of cash the enterprise vendors tend to charge, yes actually now that you ask, I think I can expect them to figure out dependancies and making proper packages. Opera seems to manage, and they are giving away their non-free software for free. Managing to package and test your code on most major distributions is actually a good way to ensure the programmers didn't go do something stupid that is going to cause problems later. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]