On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Tom Arnold wrote:
> I agree that this might be unreasonable, but all progress depends on > the unreasonable man, right? > A format supported by rpm and deb distros (and others) would be great > win for Linux. > Just yesterday _I_ had to help friends I had converted to Linux > because onlinetvrecorder.com only offers a tgz for their binary and > installation of that is just way too complex for non-geeks. > Third party software installation is the last frontier for the Linux > desktop. I know there have been many attempts and I think it is kind > of sad that RH, Novell and Debian can't agree on something LSB-based. > Serving users is never wrong and it would certainly make the pie > bigger for everybody. The distros did agree on the LSB which requires that all distros be able to read/convert/install rpm v3 packages. which, I believe, they all can. -sv _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
