Re: What is more detailled than $^O ?

Yohan N Leder (ynl@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on MMMMDCCCXV September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:MPG.1fb9c8bcec77a3639898f6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
__ In article <slrnekv9i1.rtp.abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
__ abigail@xxxxxxxxxx says...
__ > What is the "accurate linux distribution" anyway?
__ >
__
__ At least something saying Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, etc.
__ And better if it say also the major version number.


Then what? Just because it's Red Hat doesn't mean it has package X,
and just it's Debian doesn't mean it doesn't have package X.

If you want to test for a specific feature, test for that feature.
Don't assume that a specific Linux distro means something is available
(or not available).



Abigail
--
perl -we '$@="\145\143\150\157\040\042\112\165\163\164\040\141\156\157\164".
"\150\145\162\040\120\145\162\154\040\110\141\143\153\145\162".
"\042\040\076\040\057\144\145\166\057\164\164\171";`$@`'
.

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