On Thursday 28 May 2009 4:04:28 pm Daniel Carrera wrote: > * We were mainly looking at Alien as a source of Perl code we could borrow. Ah, I was lumping it in with the previous proposals to actually use .deb as the official P6 package format. My mistake.
> * The point of wayland76's proposal was to use the local package > manager. Whether the local package manager is geared toward binary > distributions is a separate issue. Again, my point on the issue of supporting binary/source distros was that wayland76's proposal /would/ be able to handle it properly; the '.deb as official' method would not. > At first I liked wayland76's proposal, but now I have a new concern: > Most package managers are not designed to hold multiple versions of the > same package. As indicated in S11, it is important that a computer can > hold multiple versions of the same package. I fear that using the native > package manager will make this difficult. This could probably be resolved, but it would probably require distro-specific code. On Gentoo, the way to do it would be with 'slots', which are specifically designed for that use; on Debian, it would seem that the names would have to be distinguished by an identifier, allowing multiple versions.
