On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:25:23PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > If there is a clearly superier packaging system then the LSB should > support that and that alone, if there are number of packaging systems > that each have different flaws and benefits then the LSB should > recognise all these different packaging systems as having a valid > purpose, but recognise that they are not ideal.
This has been discussed before (many times). A couple of things to note (and hopefully avoid rehashing old stuff) - The LSB currently defines a package format, _not_ a packaging system. Eg the RPM format, not the rpm program, or backend database etc. - Non RPM based distributions will be able to be LSB compliant without having an rpm database (eg using alien on deb based systems). A subset of RPM functionality has been selected to allow for this to work properly. - No one will be required to change the format they use to package their applications. RPM is recommended, but not required. - Work is in progress regarding an improved packaging format. There is an faq which discusses these and other topics at: http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/faq.html Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
