Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!
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> these are not good reasons. proprietary software developers from what
> ive seen make the WORST packages of anyone, even the crap you find in
> /contrib directories. LSB would have been far better off defining
> .tar.gz as the package format, and that proprietary crap go in its own
> directory in /opt. since proprietary developers never even come close
> to following any sort of filesystem standard keeping them in a self
> contained mess is the only sensible thing to do.
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lsb will help change this. ISV's will conform to lsb or they will not get the
cute stamp of approval companies like sooo much.
> and none of this is any reason for us to abandon our packaging system,
> we should provide alien as always and ignore this.
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I will fight to the end to keep dpkg alive. alien IS the correct solution.
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