>> be dropped. Instead, a common installed-software database and package >> naming scheme be proposed instead. This way, each distribution can keep > >i don't see any standard of /installation tools/ with a >database description. We really need to adopt a standard package >manager and not only a description of standard programs.
If a standard tool should be adopted for LSB-compliant systems, then the tool should be as simple as possible to avoid compatibility problems between distributions. RPM is nice in some respects, but does a lot of things that make it difficult to support under non-RPM based distributions. -David
