Supporting distro re-packaging (Was: [sclug] Linux Apprentice Wanted !)

[Patrick]

Matt Dainty wrote:

> 
> The problem AIUI is not the code itself, but how it's organised to sit
> in the distribution. You could quite easily take some Mono code &
> configuration files and plop them over the filesystem in all sorts of
> places. Same problem.
> 
> Matt

Is that true?  The apps I see like Beagle seem to have a single *nix 
executable.  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/beagle/0.2/

That prevents the whole problem, though as I say I think its too late to 
think of that for any core application especially Apache.