On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 16:01 +0100, Emanuel Rietveld wrote: > On 01/30/2012 03:38 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote: > > > > You might not want to encourage the "app" model, but that boat already > > left the dock. For Linux distros to be players on portables and > > desktops, they need to recognize that there is an appetite among the > > user base for "app" type programs that are easy to install > > (drag-and-drop). By bundling most of their dependencies, "app" type > > programs become one way to create a cross-distro "app" marketplace. > > If we end up with separate "app" marketplaces for Fedora, SUSE, > > Debian, Ubuntu, et alios, they are all going to languish. On the > > other hand, a single "app" marketplace for mainstream Linux distros > > might well prosper. > > > > Unifying package management across distros would a Good Thing (tm). Once > there's a unified interface to the package management system, you can > envision things like app marketplaces that simply instruct the > distribution to install that distribution's package of a particular app.
We already have that. It's called PackageKit (no, PackageKit is not actually a GUI package installer application, though that seems to be a common misunderstanding). It's sadly under-used for this, which you would think would be a significant purpose. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
