On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20-Sep-08, at 10:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > This does have some 'limitations' though. There are a lot of people who >> just want to run their 'applications' without dependency problems and such. >> Being able to 'bundle' your software along with everything it needs into one >> binary blob is what some people want to do. >> > > That is why Linux software is distributed as DEB or RPM packages where the > OS takes care of all the dependencies during installation. Yes but those are specific to Debian/Ubuntu or Redhat/Fedora. These are fine for real sysads but many people don't really know/want to know about package management systems. It would be nice to have one file which I can download and 'install' in some sense (perhaps without root privileges). Something like http://0install.net/or autopackage ( http://autopackage.org/). Similar to windows. Download, double click, click a few "nexts" and you have a working app (as opposed to, add a line to the apt.sources list, update, install cycle on Debian). -- ~noufal
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