Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:09 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 10/21/05, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> > And for what it's worth, last time I asked the LSB guys how many LSB RPMs
> > were "in the wild", the answer was perhaps two or three. So it's more a
> > de-jure standard than a de-facto standard.
> 
> Please point to a standard de-factor or otherwise with wide
> acceptance.... 
The FHS and the GNU-standards are fairly widely accepted standards in
the OSS, Linux and GNU world. As others already mentioned, the LSB's
importance is arguable/questionable - Fact is, its importance so far has
been almost negligible.

Ralf