[Gllug] Building a system from scratch

Mon Apr 22 09:39:48 UTC 2002

On , 19 Apr 2002, Walid Shaari wrote:
>on the other hand regarding Package managemnt! the LSB seems to
>reccomend a system based on RPM somehow!! so that rules tools such as
>pacman out in the mainstream distros. 

Not quite. The LSB wants you to be able to install J. Random RPM from
somewhere. This doesn't prohibit the distro from using a tool like
alien - the approach Debian are taking towards LSB compliance.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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