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Re: DPKG, RPM. Life sucks.

Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>
> > And we must find a way to prevent the installation of dangerous alien
> > packages, to avoid the "sysvinit syndrome".
> 
> Lest we become xenophobic, we should consider how to mark packages
> that would break vs. those which would not. No doubt there are many
> packages that would work just fine on both distributions.
> 
> Maybe just warning about non-debian packages would be enough?

It might be feasible to add:

1) A field that marks what OS/variant the package was created on
2) A field that says "don't use this on other OSs/variants"
3) Code to handle these fields, probably with an override option

So SysVInit is marked "don't use this on other OS variants", but the
Gimp (and most other things) is marked "use on whatever".

There's still a need to come up with a mechanism for contending with the
varying /etc/rc* structures.