Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program
Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> >> Anyway, would we adopt a subset of the rpm(8) command set because it
> >> accurately describes the functionality we want in lsb-install or would
> >> we adopt a subset of the RPM command set because lsb-install will just
> >> be a link or front-end to rpm(8) on RPM-based systems?
>
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>
> > Yes.
>
> Okay, do we know whether or not rpm(8) will ever change? It could
> cause problems in the latter case.
>
It is very likely it will change, but it would be a very bad move to
change it in an incompatible way. The same applies to all the system
utilities.
-hpa
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