Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"
* Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> [020502 09:54]:
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I understand that dpkg can be used elsewhere than Debian, but
> > it's de facto purpose is to serve as the Debian packaging system.
>
> I'm somewhat interested in having dpkg accepted in other environments
> as well and gradually moving away from it being just the packaging
> system for Debian.
This is somewhat an aside, but this is already moving away from
GNU/Debian Linux specific through several ports of GNU/Debian. There
are the hurd, bsd and win32/cygwin ports already. I'm not aware of
others. I agree with Wichert that this is a somewhat interesting
prospect.
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