David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I was reading through the 0.1 written spec on www.linuxbase.org and > came to the section talking about software installation. It stated > that the current plan was to go with RPM as a package format. Those > who didn't like that were to propose an alternative. > > Well, I'd like to propose an alternative. :) > > First off, I agree with standards specification. It's something that > should be done so that commercial vendors and end users won't go nuts > moving between distributions. But, I don't think it's necessary to specify > everything. > > As for the package format specification, I'd like to propose that it > be dropped. Instead, a common installed-software database and package > naming scheme be proposed instead. This way, each distribution can keep > the packaging system they like and we offer some level of compatibility > between the distributions. > > I'd like to get a discussion about this going, so please followup. :) > Also, I apologize if this has been discussed in great detail before. I'm > still reading the list archives and haven't quite caught up yet.
IIRC, the RedHat and Debian people are working on such a proposal (a new common package format) privately. Unforunately, I'm not sure who the mebers of this "packaging cabal" are, and I for one would like to see them open this up a bit. -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jakob.kaivo.net/
