[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:54:45AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:46:36PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:29, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> > Do you want that to stay that way (i.e. all distros need to include 
>> > /etc/redhat-release) or do you agree that in the future this should 
>> > be changed to something not distro-specific?
>> 
>> No, I agree that we should move to something not distro specific.
>maybe include it to gconf scheme, I mean putting new file to /etc or 
>/boot fits only for custom ditros(like soas) not for regular ones.

I see no need for custom inventions here.

What is currently grabbed from below /boot/ is hardware-specific, so 
should be provided by the setup of the kernel, bootloader or similar, 
and we (Sugar) should silently ignore if it doesn't exist.

What is currently grabbed from below /etc/ is distribution-specific, so 
should be provided by them in a generic way (LSB), and we (Sugar) should 
warn if the underlying system does not conform to core LSB standards.

If by "we" you mean the distributors of Soas, then I recommend that you 
do not use GConf but LSB to tell about your distribution.


  - Jonas

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