Re: Can we have a /etc/debian in base?

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Kai Henningsen writes ("Re: Can we have a /etc/debian in base?"):
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> Umm ... _can_ any of these things be used to differentiate between a  
> Debian system and, say, a Red Hat system that only has dpkg installed so  
> it can use some Debian packages?

What are you trying to test for ?  The existence of dpkg ?  Easy.
Whether all the packages in /usr (say) were installed by dpkg ?
Impossible.  Some other thing ?  Test for it directly, perhaps, or
look for /etc/debian_version.

Ian.