* BandiPat (penguin0601@earthlink.net) [030617 09:26]: ->Basically SuSE's RPM works as the others do and you should not ->experience any problems. Of course, if you try using a MDK or RH rpm ->with SuSE, you may find that because they are not following the LSB as ->closely that the files are installed in different places on your ->system. The release of RPM that SuSE uses has been modified to handle RPM 4.0 based packages. RPM 4.0 doesn't handle most of the platforms that SuSE runs on outside of the X86 arena. It has issues on PPC, S/390 and the others. So until RH fixes these issues (which may take time since they don't run on these platforms) then SuSE will continue to modify the last in the 3.x series..or so I remember being told. So using SuSE with it's version of RPM should not hamper using other distro's packages. But what will hamper this is that RH and Mandrake tend to shove everything and the kitchen sink under /usr which is in my opinion stupid. I mean with all this talk about unix..linux..unix. People need to remember that /usr isn't /user ..it's UNIX System Resources...which would equate to system binaries...with the acception of /usr/local/bin. It's all pretty much a kludge until every distro gets on the same sheet of music as far as filesystem layout. So you can do what you want and put things where you want as of right now. -- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction. ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org