Re: [arch-general] arch-release

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 10:04 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

maybe we should delete it. Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which seems pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do you mean 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? Assuming the latter, a better "system identification" would be something like `pacman -Q`

When /etc/arch-release exists, a script or application knows that it's running on archlinux. With just "pacman -Q" you won't prove it's archlinux, as my debian webserver with custom-compiled software also returns output there: I use pacman to manage my custom compiled software, no matter what distribution I use.