Le ven 12/09/2003 à 14:49, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 13:27, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > > urpmi is THE killer feature of Mandrake above all others distributions. > > Apt was a must, but for now, it seems urpmi is better (from my point of > > view ...) > > Free software always need a friendly competition with at least two great > challengers. > Linux / BSD, > KDE / Gnome / WM, Xfce,..., > OpenOffice / Koffice / Abiword / ... > urpmi / apt / portage > > When common practices can be found they became standards. > But to enforce a standard a priori without a good experience reduces > the creativity. > Now experience is acquired, and a convergence to a universal package > is not a dream, it is possible. > > I would be great if his job could start soon and a have a conclusion during > Libre Software Meeting 2004 at Bordeaux. (7-10 july).
I could agree if apt and urpmi were only for the same purpose, but did urpmi-parallel (possibility to install on many differents machines of a cluster -may be a subnetwork-) exists for apt for example ? The competition will still stay there as gnome/kde desktop differences exists. The good thing is that free software will prove the best way to include improvements rapidly without being stopped by patents. Merging both could seem a good idea, but you'll better refer to a standardisation process than the program itself : take a look at LSB in that sense for example. If you want a merge of apt and get, you'll be sure that within one month another tool will come to add another feature ... Please don't try to reproduce the UNIX and BSD failures ... (instead of normalizing they have just tried to hold up their consumers). Stef BTW, is the distro that perfect that we have the time to discuss so much during an RC phase ? --
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