Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 17:03:03 UTC 2005


On 10/21/05, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> The FHS and the GNU-standards are fairly widely accepted standards in
> the OSS, Linux and GNU world.
The context was... packaging standards.... which i'm pretty sure isn't
covered in the venerable standards you mention.

>As others already mentioned, the LSB's
> importance is arguable/questionable - Fact is, its importance so far has
> been almost negligible.

I'm not going to argue its worth, but it is the only attempt at a
standard that I am aware of that actually covers packaging.. across
distributions... in a way that is relevant to Hearn's comments about
Fedora packaging. The fact that the only standards specification that
I can find..easily...has questionable worth..only further supports my
point that there isn't a workable standard in the package space with
wide acceptance, so it's pointless and most likely counter-productive
for Hearn to imply that there is such a standard out there to measure
Fedora packaging against when trying to compel discussion about
changing aspects of Fedora to make cross-distribution packaging easier
to do.

-jef"more importantly it looks like hot liquid lithium limited Ohmicly
heated low aspect ratio tokamak plasma discharges reach an energy
confinement time nearly 3 times larger than previous emperical scaling
laws would predict... its miller time"spaleta




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