Subject: Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution
From: Michel Dänzer (daenzerm@student.ethz.ch)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 02:35:50 MDT
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> >
> > I've never used suse personally, but I've tried using a
> > suse rpm witha redhat installation and it just screwed everything up.
>
> I look at that as trying to install an OS/2 binary onto a Windows box
> (and then complaining that it doesn't work).
Huh??? We are speaking about the same binaries for the same OS, but packaged
in an incompatible manner.
> > Also, what's this about suse using /opt for kde and gnome? sn't
> > /opt in the filesystem standard for commercial software only?
>
> It all depends on what "standard" you're using.
Check out FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), which is an affiliated project
of The Free Standards Group.
Debian is already mostly FHS conformant and aiming to be fully so AFAIK.
> I should also note that Debian packages also don't work well with other
> distributions.
But at least there aren't incompatible flavours of debs - you find a deb
somewhere, you install it, it works.
Michel
-- Why drink & drive when you can smoke and fly??? ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS
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