On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:29:29AM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote:
> > Jason's point about wanting rpm prompted this thought.
> >
> > Surely the point is not so much that one distro is rpm or
> > deb based.
> >
> > If you get an rpm for RH, this does not neccessarily mean the
> > dependancies or file layout will make sense for say SuSE.
> >
> > Has anyone struck this much?
>
> In theory at leaast the FHS (thats the right name isn't it) should prevent
> this. Most of the distro's are supposedly supporting it.
if all the package manager does is install (and remove) files then
this may be true, but not if it does anything at all more intelligent
than that (such as editing distro-specific config files, stopping and
restarting affected services [which may have different names in
/etc/rc.d], updating system alternatives and so on).
Unless you're using Slackware at least some of this stuff is usually
going on :)
Conrad.
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