From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:31:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] distro independent program installed?

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.

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 ..