RE: distro name

[Erik Slagter <erik+rpm oldconomy com>]

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:00, Dag Wieers wrote:

> How are you going to build cross-vendor packages when every vendor is 
> having their own specific naming convention and libraries ? What 3rd 
> parties are doing is removing all the dependencies from thei packages so 
> that they will install. Making dependencies completely futile and having 
> no guarantee they will work.

Although using sonames as dependencies does help.

BTW I regularly install rpms from PLD and Mandrake on my FC system, no
problem. Sometimes I need to persuade them a little bit yeah.