Re: Packaging and installation
* Bodo Bauer (bb@turbolinux.com) [001023 16:04]:
> Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) wrote:
> > Nicholas Petreley <nicholas@petreley.com>:
> > > Instead, we should define an installation protocol that
> > > looks for programs and libraries within the filesystem
> > > itself in order to detect if dependencies are met.
> >
> > Nick, I think this is a case where the search for perfection is far less
> > important that getting a solution in place that does 90% of the job and
> > can evolve to do 100%.
>
> I (as an ex Zenguin guy...:) agree with Eric. We have RPM and it works well
> in most of the cases. A 100% solution is too much of a dream to become
> reality any time soon. And quite frankly I don't know if I'd like to
> have one and only one package format. Competition is good and it drives
> technology (see Gnome/KDE... :).
Huh? One of my main points was that a protocol approach
allows you to use any package format.
-Nick
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