[packaging] Meeting next week to discuss trusted third-party repositories

[Thomas Leonard]

2008/12/20 Yfrwlf <swiftpaw22 at gmail.com>:
>
>> I'm not aware of any distribution that supports 0install.
>>
>> Basically, I'm not interested in 0install unless some distro decides
>> it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and replaces their
>> package manager with it.
>> - Dan
>
> That's the problem, the distros don't want users having the freedom to
> install whatever they want, it's part of their business model.
[...]

Much as I hate to break up a good distribution-bashing thread ;-), I
have to point out that several major Linux distributions do support
Zero Install (in the sense that they provide packages for it, mirror
them, accept bug reports, etc, as they do for their other packages).

Ubuntu/Feisty required users to add a third party repository to get
it. Gutsy, Hardy and Intrepid all provide it directly. Although the
instructions I gave above for Intrepid started with

  $ sudo apt-get install zeroinstall-injector

I could have left that line out. If you start with the second line on
a fresh install of Ubuntu:

  $ 0alias deb2zero http://0install.net/2008/interfaces/deb2zero.xml

it will tell you what to do. I think it should be at least as easy to
tell users to install Zero Install as to tell them to add a third
party repository.

Debian/Lenny has Zero Install 0.34, while Sid has 0.37.

Fedora has included it since Core 3.

The openSUSE build service builds (unofficial) packages for openSUSE
and Mandriva.

None of the major distributions has it installed by default, which is
not unreasonable given the current range of packages available.


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