patch or not patch ?

[frederic heem]

Alle 15:29, lunedì 16 ottobre 2006, Timo Hoenig ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:04 +0200, frederic heem wrote:
> > Just for curiosity, the opensuse dbus rpm (dbus-1-0.92-8.1.src.rpm) has
> > also 5 patches, debian has also some patches, all different from each
> > other.
>
> D-Bus 0.94 is being checked into openSUSE FACTORY without any patches.
>
Good news. 
What about redhat patches ?
>    Timo

Another question is why redhat, suse and <put your favorite distribution> have 
different spec, different /etc/init.d/dbus, different dbus-daemon location 
etc.. Not even talking about debian & friends...
No one is adding value by making things incompatible, and it's real burden for 
application developer.
Why not building one rpm that can be installed on *all* rpm based system ? Is 
it so difficult to agree between packager ? 
Frederic Heem