From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <394DDB66.62A97110@student.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:35:50 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hollis Blanchard CC: arcane@verinet.com, yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution References: <394DD78F.AD49931@amulet.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/