On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 4:29 pm, Rakesh wrote:
to manage. Different installers wouldn't be a problem but the library paths and configuration paths (AFAIK) are different for different flavours to some extent. It would be easier for a developer if he writes code on one flavour of linux and that runs absolutely well on other flavours as well so that he can concentrate more on the features or logic of the code rather than concentrating on dealing with different library paths. Correct me if my perspective is wrong in this context.
100% right - some distros use prefix as /usr and others /usr/local and still others use both. Some hide postgresql in weird places and other softwares barf when installing as they cant find the headers. I avoid rpms like plague - but even installing from source faces the problems above