Re: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)

[Dima <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au>]

Galen Hazelwood wrote:
...  A universal package
 > manager requires total standardization of _everything_.

Well, a universal package manager could have a config file telling
it where to extract files -- where /bin, /sbin and all other places
defined by fhs happen to live on this particular machine.  One could
probably have a tarball for each of these directories (as needed) in
the package.  A config file would then tell package manager that 
startup_files.tar is to be extracted into /etc/init.d while 
system_binaries.tar goes to /sbin. Hmm, granularity would be problem...

Just a thought
-- 
Dimitri
emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem



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