standard dependancy system

[Patryk Zawadzki]

2007/11/22, Mildred <ml.mildred593 at online.fr>:
>
> Le Thu 22/11/2007 à 18:25 Thomas Leonard à écrit:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:58:23 +0100, Mildred wrote:
> >
> > This is almost exactly how it already works (except that the URI for
> > libpng is actually
> > http://freenet-homepage.de/LinuxCNC/0install/Libpng/ libpng.xml). See:
> >
> >   http://0install.net/
> Yes, 0install might work like that (I never used it) but not everyone
> wants to use 0install and some prefer using the packages provided by
> the distributrion.
>
> The idea was more to provide a standard interface that would be
> customized by the distribution.
>
> Maybe this could be integrated in 0install somehow, providing hooks so
> the distribution may customize what happens when a resource is required.
> Do you think it is possible ? And do you think it is possible to make
> it widely accepted ?

I'm afraid that the huge success of 0install (or rather lack of it)
shows there is little to no interest in unifying the system. There are
also various technical reasons including packaging rules,
micropackaging and providing multiple versions of same software that
would make impossible to pick the right thing across all
distributions. If you need a proof just pick two RPM-based
distributions and try to install packages from one in the other.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution