[OT] distro independent program installed?

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hi all, i’m working on a distro-independent source based package management system written in ruby and i’m stummped on one thing.

is there a general, distro-independent way to tell if a package has been installed? i want to be able to support any distro regardless of FHS.

thanks,
-t0

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I think it does’nt. Possibly you may choose to write a SystemType
interface and various back-end for the various systems… or just go
with ‘which’, ‘locate’, ‘find’ and so on …

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il Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:39:48 +0900, “T. Onoma” transami@runbox.com ha scritto::

hi all, i’m working on a distro-independent source based package management system written in ruby and i’m stummped on one thing.

is there a general, distro-independent way to tell if a package has been installed? i want to be able to support any distro regardless of FHS.