RE: extension of lsb packages
> This is Unix (well, almost) folks. Any tool that depends on
> the extension of a filename to work properly is simply
> broken.
That's a silly statement. The rule is that the extensions
don't matter to the /kernel/ - and they don't - but they may
matter to programs that are going to process a particular
file, and there are plenty of examples where they do. Try
using the C compiler to compile a source file you've chosen
to name foo.q
Nonetheless, this is a problem we need to solve cleanly,
and solving it just by suffixes is probably not sufficient,
although perhaps a useful hint to humans.
* How can an LSB RPM be distinguished from a non-LSB one?
* Can this be done without requiring existing tools to rev?
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