Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb: > below. RPM is the defacto standard on Linux [sic] and supported either > directly, or indirectly by the widest number of distributions.
The statement is perfectly true, Debian supports RPM with aliens help. > The intent is to in the future replace this format with a new > format currently being developed. I'd like it much more if there was a simple "portable package format" (like GNU .tar.gz (ie with autoconf or workalike);) and distributions can build on that if they feel they need to. In short: most is there. > So, LSB is not a specification for Linux-based operating systems but for the > subset of them which uses the RPM format. What part of the quote leads you to this conclusion? ciao, 2ri -- No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>