On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:30:17PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > A major distro heading that way (e.g. Debian) might encourage developers > to increase the configurability of their own software perhaps?
Developers != distro|package maintainers, and free software should be portable and not distro specific. So, developers wouldn't have anything to do here, only maintainers. > Ahah! Yes so we need a new default packaging/ installation format to be > supported by RPM and DPKG, to support the better way, e.g.: https://xkcd.com/927/ :) > So look into /var/lib/dpkg/info - that's heading for 9K files on my > system - and this is a relatively fresh install (<12months)! > > That's not human friendly. Because humans are not the intended audience for this stuff. Use dpkg -l [| less or the like]. > The point is just multiple versions parallel installs, that's all. There are already solutions for this, e.g. look at PC-BSDs packages. Or use a container. Or compile yourself and set --prefix accordingly. > Given my experience, your "nobody wants" is too broad by at least 1 :) You're free to start a new project. Maybe others will join, maybe not. best, Tom
