On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:06:36AM +1200, Tony Reeves wrote: > Just as a matter of interest, has the team included a completely green > fields approach i.e. staff with no specific package management > experience asking customers (users and end developers) what their > ultimate solution would be, untainted by current concepts?
Most of us have had some experience (and frustration) using the current packaging and patching systems both from creating and maintaining packages and patches as well as installing them, but I don't believe any of us have spent any time developing the old infrastructure (though possibly Bart has, in his recent attempts to breathe a little life into the patching process for S10). We're approaching this not from the perspective of fixing the problems that exist, but rethinking the architecture in a modern light, picking the best and most useful features of existing systems, while avoiding the problems they've run into over the years. So I think that's a "yes". :) Danek
