On Friday 12 September 2003 16:19, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 15:11, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > 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 ...) > > > > > > When common practices can be found they became standards. > > > But to enforce a standard a priori without a good experience > > > reduces the creativity. > > > > 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 ? > > A full merging is not a good wish. But all differences which are not > still useful. For example you can launch a gnome program in a KDE > environment. It would be nice to make a package for Mandrake and > Debian with the same tool.
what would be the benefit ? being able to install the same package on the 2 distros ? And having a package not integrated with the 2 distro, or at least, with one and not the others ? I don't know the debian policy, but i know that our binary are not fully working on debian, and that mandrake naming scheme is different from the debian ones, so, dependancy will be unsatisfied. So, maybe you think of something which can produce the files neeeded to produce a package for each distro, which would be quite interesting, but, not so useful, IMHO. -- Michaël Scherer
