On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 03:50 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>
> > Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> > ...
> >>> Are you going to work with the underlying system's package manager, or
> >>> put everything in /usr/local?
> >>
> >>
> >> We'll work with the package manager -- I'm an RPM guy ;)
> >>
> > RPM isnt the only packaging system out there ;)
>
> I thought that Linux had this 'Linux Standard File System' or some such
> that described where files were supposed to be installed? Or is this
> another one of those Standards that nobody follows? :(
Package management goes beyond sticking the files in the right place.
If that were the only requirement, then tar(1) would be a package
manager.
As for the Linux Standards Base, that is little more than Red Hat and
their like-minded friends getting together in a committee and declaring
the way they already do everything to be a "standard". Generally the
LSB holds the short-term needs of commercial Linux distributors above
other considerations.
-jwb
