On Saturday 29 October 2005 21:53, Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 22:49, Anders Johansson wrote: > > You're talking about a problem that doesn't really exist. It's not so > > hard to create packages that work across distributions. mozilla, > > openoffice and opera are already doing it. As far as I know there is only > > one version of quake, unreal tournament, doom3 etc. and they work well on > > all > > distributions > > > > So yes, it is very possible to create packages that don't give anyone a > > headache > > All of the examples you gave are self-sufficient, multi-platform > applications that don't really depend on anything. So yes, doing > everything yourself is clearly an option, but not everyone has > the money to do it.
I have no idea what you mean by dependencies then. Opera uses qt, mozilla uses gtk, openoffice uses all sorts of things, and of course they all use X > Software installation on Linux IS very much a problem. YaST, APT, > smart, etc would not exist otherwise. I beg your pardon? What is the alternative? Windows Installer? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
