Re: New Markets
On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> [Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]
>
> | It would be a good idea to see if a new, quicker development cycle or
> | paradigm could be started after 1.1.
>
> Not a flame either, but let me simply state: The package format it to
> complicate.
I certainly think it would be good for an experienced developer to rework
the documentation for new package maintainers, but that, of course, would
take time. I'm not convinced that things are too complicated.
> This isn't only my opinion here. These pre- and postinst scripts are
> quite sophisticated, sure, and they are needed. But e. g. there is no
> need to re-package the original program sources! The source should stay
> untouched as _virgin_ .tar.gz files.
>
> As long as the Debian community does not change their mind, I will
> *never* make any package (in the past, I have done a lot socalled Notes
> files for the BOGUS distribution -- but the Debianization of the sources
> prevents me from participating here, and -- believe me -- I'm really sad
> about it!).
In many cases, I think, the Debianized source package has only added the
Debian files while leaving the original source unchanged.
>
> Please, change the format as soon as 1.1 is out (and, please, make it
> possible to create an .deb without becoming root: dpkg -i should set the
> permissions running an postinst script).
I don't know how I feel about all of this, but it is clear to me that packages
must be installed exclusively as root. Some Linux machines are used by many
people, and dpkg -i can be used to upgrade or downgrade packages which can
alter the stability of the system among other things.
>
> Karl
>
Cheers. Syrus.
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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