[Libguestfs] distro checking

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:36:50PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
> NOT a problem,
> 
> just a question about distro checking:
> 
> the default value is REDHAT,
> then you check debian (or ubuntu)
> and then archlinux
> 
> why are you using two if statements ?

It is only used here:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/appliance/packagelist.in

It's not a great solution TBH, but no one's come up with a better way :-)

Rich.

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