Am 14.03.2013 19:25, schrieb Theodore Papadopoulo:
Yes I imagined that detecting /var/lib/rpm was one way to deal with the problem (but not /etc/*-release as this is exactly what I want to avoid: having to map distributions to packaging system).
I was hoping that there was some magic command a la lsb_release which could have helped for this). Well I guess I'll have to rely on some heuristic like those for now.
Would there be a possibility (for the long term) to add such a facility. I understand that this is quite difficult as it requires some synchronisation between distributions
i fear this is unlikely, there are way too much distributions