Re:Distribution Howto. (Score 1)

Actually, there is a very good reason to have a distribution specific package extension. It is quite common that a package from one distribution (say RH) when installed on another (say Debian) will cause the target system to break horribly. Thats why you should use the packages specific to your distribution. But if both distro's use the same extension, the likelyhood of confusing yourself and installing the wrong one is very high. Hence we differentiate the packages with a distribution specific extension. As for reusing the package manager... It is open source (GPL), so if another distro wants to use it, they can search through the code and replace all references to .deb with .yad (yet-another-distribution). Masklin