On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:20:23AM +0100, Sören Reinecke wrote:
With your help I want to make package installing/removing equal on all linux systems without disturbing the diversity we have across linux distributions. In order to do that we need just a symlink, no replacement of existing software.
You need to create a Debian package that contains your symlink (or bash script), and then either find someone to sponsor uploads of your package into Debian, or become a Debian Maintainer or Developer to do so yourself. You can start reading about this stuff here: https://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint You are probably out of time to do this in time for the next Debian release, because our freeze for that release begins at the end of this month. That's the *how*: a short sentence on whether you *should*: reading the page you provide, I don't think it's a good idea to actually do this. I'm not convinced that having to remember different package manager names is a significant problem for new people adopting a Linux distribution. The name is a very small part of the differences between the package managers (they have very different behaviour models, not just names), and the package managers are a small part of all the differences between distributions. That said, if you want to pursue this, the route above is how to do it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.