[packaging] Useing distro package managers. Was: Re: Meeting next week to discuss trusted third-party repositories

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sun Dec 21 07:27:44 PST 2008


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Denis Washington <dwashington at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I prefer living with the existing distro formats.  ISVs can fairly easily
>> do the alien'ing or rebuilding on their own, and provide repos in
>> the two or three popular distro formats.  We need to keep a big squeaky
>> bat to hit anybody who comes up with a new format, supporting two
>> is plenty hard, I'm not at all happy with Pardus for inventing a new one.
>
> I think a new package format is not a problem. It means that ISVs just have
> to maintain one single package and one single repo

Only once distros support the new format.  Until then, ISVs have
to support the distros' formats *and* the new one.  That's not going
to go over well.
- Dan


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