RPMs and *.desktop files

[Scott Wheeler]

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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 22:38, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> This is not just idealism, it is the way it has to be if Linux is going to 
> be successful on the desktop.

"This is not just idealism, it's idealism..."

> Unfortunately, (at least some of) the major distros *are* broken and they 
> have no intention of fixing them.  RedHat is probably the worst but there 
> are problems with Mandrake and to (IIUC a lesser) extent with SuSE.
>
> I think that they are "flaming idiots" but they appear to think otherwise 
> [...] 

As exciting as distro wars and insults are they're not really on topic here.  
Nor really are our objections with where or how distros package various sets 
of Linux tools.  Maybe try the LSB lists...

- -Scott

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