mbonsack;275569 Wrote: > As an aside, I think this is one of the biggest reasons Linux has a hard > time on the desktop (which the server versions have largely fixed). Too > many distros, too many dependencies, making life *way* too hard for > folks like you just trying to support your own product. Makes you want > to just say, "we support RHEL 3.x and above" and call it a day...
IMO, it's no better/worse for desktop vs. servers. The real problem is that the major RPM-based distros (RH and SUSE) don't cooperate. They have different packaging policies, use different names, different init scripts, different FHS interpretations, different installers (yum/yast), etc. Mandrake, CC, altlinux and others just add to the complexity. The debian world doesn't have this problem. Major derivatives (specifically Ubuntu) just use the debian packages and everything just works. It's not easy to make a generic RPM. The SC RPM tries to do what's best for RHEL/Fedora/SUSE. The only way to make this all work cleanly for others is to build different RPMs for each distro. -- Fletch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44170 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
