Here's the post, I hope you like it https://sheosisthoughts.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/the-way-of-bundling/ ( BTW if anyone it's in doubt sheosi it's my name). bpm, indeed, Limba has not much more than that as it's still a young project, though there's more from OSTree ( it's even going to be used in Fedora 22) .
2015-02-10 23:13 GMT+01:00 Sergio Tortosa Benedito <serto...@gmail.com>: > I've readed poettering's posts, and what I don't like from it is the > dependency from btrfs, I don't like to depend on a feature of a technology, > not that much at least, and I find that limba packages and poettering's > snapshots can be made to work together ( I mean the bundles could still be > transformed to btrfs snapshots). BTW, I'm writing the post :) . > > 2015-02-10 20:42 GMT+01:00 mpb <mpb.m...@gmail.com>: > >> > On 9 February 2015 at 17:18, Sergio Tortosa Benedito < >> serto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Right now we rely on Install and Compile, but I've been thinking about >> >> changing the package management way. Lately, there's been a shift >> towards >> >> bundles, and I find Gobo a perfect fit for this. I thought we could >> use a >> >> bundling system called Limba for applications and a something like >> OStree >> >> for the main OS. What do you think? >> >> PD: I'm aware this is thinking big but it's something should be >> defined. >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I had to go and Google these projects, but now that I have a very >> > vague general understanding of what they do, I see your point. >> > >> > However, this is proposing very major changes to a distro that is >> > already critically under-staffed at the moment anyway. >> > >> > Might I suggest that you write up 2 or 3 detailed descriptions of what >> > both of these things would mean, separately and jointly, explaining >> > what Limba and OSTree are, what benefits they would bring, what costs, >> > etc.? That way people could judge for themselves without having to go >> > and do possibly hours of research. >> >> Here are the links I found when searching for Limba and OSTree. >> >> >> http://blog.tenstral.net/2014/11/introducing-limba-a-software-installer-experiment.html >> >> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree >> >> The Limba post references this "famous blogpost" by Lennart Poettering >> from September 2014. >> >> http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html >> >> After a cursory review, it seems to me Poettering's proposal offers >> solutions to many of the problems that motivated the creation of Gobo. >> Given Poettering's influence and record of accomplishment, I'd >> recommend the Gobo devs take a look at it. >> >> There is also this comment on the Limba post: >> >> Jasem Mutlaq commented on 29. January 2015: >> [Limba has a] Refreshing approach, but with all the work done in Nix >> and Lennart’s proposal, I think most developers are going to sit and >> wait until ONE proposal gains real cross-distro tracktion, just like >> Systemd did >> >> -mpb >> _______________________________________________ >> gobolinux-devel mailing list >> gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org >> http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel >> > >
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