RE: distro name

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Erik Slagter wrote:

> 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.

Guess what, libraries differ on different distributions. And even when 
they are named the same, they may not be ABI compatible.


> 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.

Good luck to you.

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