Daniel Bradley wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I personally wish we would just standardize RPM instead... it really has
> > become the de facto standard in the Linux world. I realize this is
> > politically incorrect to say in front of Slackware and Debian people,
> > but it really is the truth.
>
> In that case lets standardize on Windows instead... it really has become
> the de facto standard in the computing world. :)
>
> Perhaps standardize on the command line interface while changing the
> name to lsb-package, but definately not standardizing on the actual
> executable.
>
WHY should we change the name? We didn't change the name of
/usr/sbin/sendmail to lsb-mta because we standardized the interface.
All you do by changing the name is breaking all existing scripts.
I would suggest standardizing a subset of the RPM CLI under the name
"rpm". However, as you point out, it doesn't have to be the RPM binary
as provided by RedHat, any more than /usr/sbin/sendmail has to be what
you can download from sendmail.org.
-hpa
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