Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Peter Van Lone" <petervl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/06, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> Location of the installed app ie in usr or somewhere different to what
> SuSE expects. Location of the dependencies, evenif there aren't any. The
> RPM file built for Suse knows in what directories to find what it needs.
> Install another distro RPM that expects to find the dependencies in a
> different directory to the SuSE standard and you have a SNAFU ie
> dependant packages are in /home as opposed to the SuSE way of /lib.
<snip>

this is why it would be nice, if there was a "compare and contrast"
document somewhere, that showed the normal paths expected by the major
distros. I have faced this when trying to install, for example, the
freetds package ... folks assisting me where surprised concering where
binaries where found in contrast to Red Hat.

I *suspect* that SUSE has more variance from the "regular" than other
RPM distros ... is my suspicion correct?

At any rate, it would be useful to have a Red Hat vs SUSE path
defaults comparison.

Peter